#1 International Bestseller
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel meets The Italian Job in internationally-bestselling author Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg’s witty and insightful comedy of errors about a group of delinquent seniors whose desire for a better quality of life leads them to rob and ransom priceless artwork.
Martha Andersson may be seventy-nine-years-old and live in a retirement home, but … and live in a retirement home, but that doesn’t mean she’s ready to stop enjoying life. So when the new management of Diamond House starts cutting corners to save money, Martha and her four closest friends—The Genius, The Rake, Christina and Anna-Gretta (a.k.a. The League of Pensioners)—won’t stand for it. Fed up with early bedtimes and overcooked veggies, this group of feisty seniors sets about to regain their independence, improve their lot, and stand up for seniors everywhere.
Their solution? White collar crime. What begins as a relatively straightforward robbery of a nearby luxury hotel quickly escalates into an unsolvable heist at the National Museum. With police baffled and the Mafia hot on their trail, the League of Pensioners has to stay one walker’s length ahead if it’s going to succeed….
Told with all the insight and humor of A Man Called Ove or Where’d You Go Bernadette?, The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules is a delightful and heartwarming novel that goes to prove the adage that it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.
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I really enjoyed this one, in fact I think I rode along with them.. have recommended it to several friends. I would love to see more from these characters.
Loved the idea that old folks still can have a good time and be devious. It had a few slow spots and the plot was a bit crazy, but worth the read if you enjoy light hearted.
These “old folks” are not going to “rust out”.
They are active, vital, have a variety of interest and are supportive good friends! I hope there might be a sequel–I’d love to see what other “mischief” these folks get into, and take me along for the ride.
I totally enjoyed Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg novel about how elder folks have the same desires and needs as the younger generations. They are just housed in older bodies. The little Old Lady Who Broke All The Rules just seems like a story that could happen in any country and with any older group of residents. Great read.
Marie F Martin
This was a delightful story written in easy to read. I really enjoyed this book and told the girl I work with about it and she downloaded it and is enjoying the cute book now, and we both plan on reading the rest of these books about it. I would give this an A+++++. Please keep sharing these kindsb of books so we can all keep enjoining reading these.
What a refreshing change of pace, and an alternative point of view!
A delightful novel about a group of retirees in Sweden, who can slowly see themselves decaying in their retirement home, and set out to spice up their lives. The moral of the story is, never underestimate the elderly.
An absolutely lovely read. Sweet and easy going. It will make you think about how we treat our elderly, and where they are left to live out their lives.
Translated into English, it reminded me very much of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, with a similar level of humour, and a sprinkling of local knowledge.
I wholeheartedly recommend this book.
A rebellious bunch of people of “a certain age” out to live the life they choose rather than the life chosen for them. Will appeal to the rebel in all of us, specially as we age. Totally charming, delightful and just plain fun to read.
It is amazing what one might be able do when they see age as a badge rather than a handicap, or reason to sit around doing nothing. Life is fun no matter what your age, if you want it to be.
Funny
Funny
Reminiscent of “The 100 Year old Man who climbed out the window and disappeared” it just builds on the idea that old people in Scandinavian countries are a feisty, entertaining, delightful lot. Hmm… maybe I should retire there?
Couldn’t get into it. Didn’t finish it. Not my type of book
i couldn’t even get thru the first 100 pages. Supposed to be humorous, but boarders on elderly abuse as the base of the story line. I read 5-10 books per month and this one was a big disappointment. There is nothing funny about hungry, ignored, desperate people in assisted living who are being given medication to appease the facility staff.
Loved them
Loved it! These oldsters rocked!
I hope I have that much gumption when I’m a ‘pensioner’!
I like having elderly people the central figures in a book, and the “pensioners” are likable enough. But their ring leader is naive beyond belief and they are actually stupid enough to follow her plans without questioning or investigating on their own. Example, she suggests it would be a good idea to commit a crime so they can go to prison as she saw on televion that the food and recreation is better in prison than in their retirement home. They all say, in effect, oh, great, let’s go to the museum with our “Zimmer frames” and canes and steal priceless works of art for ransom money. Readers must then suspend belief further and further until dragged (after at least two hundred pages too many) to an implausible happy ending. Tedious
Too contrived.
quick read.
silly and poorly written