At first sight, Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots – neighbours who can’t reverse a trailer properly, joggers, shop assistants who talk in code, and the perpetrators of the vicious coup d’etat that ousted him as Chairman of the Residents’ Association. He will persist in making his daily inspection rounds of the local streets.

But isn’t it rare, these days, to find such old-fashioned clarity of belief and deed? Such unswerving conviction about what the world should be, and a lifelong dedication to making it just so?In the end, you will see, there is something about Ove that is quite irresistible . . .

The author of A Man Called Ove is back with a riotous comedy about a hostage-situation at a Swedish apartment viewing
In a small town in Sweden it
appears to be an ordinary day. But look more closely, and you'll see a
mysterious masked figure approaching a bank...Two hours later,
chaos has descended. A bungled attempted robbery has developed into a
hostage situation - and the offender is refusing to communicate their
demands to the police. Within the building, fear quickly turns to
irritation for the seven strangers trapped inside. If this is to be
their last day on earth, shouldn't it be a bit more dramatic?
But as the minutes tick by, they begin to suspect that the criminal
mastermind holding them hostage might be more in need of rescuing than
they are...

By the time the last goal is scored, someone in Beartown will be dead . . . Us Against You is the story of two towns, two teams and what it means to believe in something bigger than yourself. It's about how people come together - sometimes in anger, often in sorrow, but also through love. And how, when we stand together, we can bring a town back to life.