#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 didn’t like this book at all. The concept of senior citizens taking control of their lives was good, but the narrative of their adventures in crime was excruciatingly slow. The characters were superficially drawn. As a very senior citizen myself, l wanted to be able to identify with any of them,but I could not.
Very entertaining. There is always something unpredictable occurring. The characters are well defined and the book leaves one hoping for another followup book.
Very entertaining book. There’s always something unpredictable going on with the main character. The book leaves one hoping to read more about the well-defined characters in a follow-up volume.
fun fun book. being a senior citizen myself made it much more enjoyable. would be a great vacation book.
It was mildly amusing, but not memorable. Reading about the care and treatment of an elderly population in another country, which I was not familiar with, was interesting, but the book was a bit too much of a “cozy” for my taste.
Hard to get into
Very slow moving. Very boring but the idea for the story has a lot of potential.
Sorry, I haven’t finished this book & won’t. I found it very boring. The premise is good but the verbiage doesn’t hold my interest. Old people breaking out of bad retirement home & enjoying themselves while planning & executing a Robbery needed a faster pace & tightening up. When things went wrong instead if heightening the story I just put it down & quit the book.
Completely unbelievable, not remotely amusing. Very disappointing.
Not adult book
Senior citizens rock in this bittersweet and funny adventure romp. When confronted with substandard care in their retirement community, a group of seniors realize they would be treated better in prison. So they figure out a way to get there.
About halfway through this and absolutely love it.
A very funny book. My Mom is in a nursing home and many things hit home. Nice to get some laughs out of what sometimes can be a depressing situation.
Funny little story! Great characters, interesting plot. Very light reading. I laughed out loud many times.
It’s not deep, nor world changing, so if that’s what you’re looking for, look elsewhere. I quite enjoyed it.
Let’s you know old age is more than sickness or dementia. That you are still who you were before people classified you as a certain number of birthdays.
Great fun.
Cute.
In the style of Frederick Bachman ( A Man Called Ove) this book was quirky and entertaining. It’s a fast read that can easily be picked up nd put down at the reader’s convenience.
Could not finish it which is veryy difficult for me once I start but I honestly found it too silly.
What a delight!
Great title for a wonderful book.
Boring, formulaic