FROM THE MULTIMILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY FRIENDS ANXIOUS PEOPLE AND A MAN CALLED OVE FREDRIK BACKMANNOW A MAJOR HBO TV SERIESI utterly believed in the residents of Beartown and felt ripped apart by the events in the book JOJO MOYESI couldnt put it down. Heartrending and engrossing 5 Reader ReviewIn a large Swedish forest Beartown hides a dark secret . . .Cutoff from everywhere else it experiences the kind of isolation that tears people apart.And each year more and more of the town is swallowed by the forest.Then the town is offered a bright new future.But it is all put in jeopardy by a single brutal act.It divides the town into those who think it should be hushed up and forgotten and those wholl risk the future to see justice done.Who will speak upCould you stand by and stay silentOr would you risk everything for justiceWhich side would you be onA mature compassionate novel Sunday TimesYoull love this engrossing novel PeopleYou know a book is good when you dont want it to end 5 reader reviewPRAISE FOR ANXIOUS PEOPLEA brilliant and comforting read MATT HAIGFunny compassionate and wise. An absolute joy A.J. PEARCEA surefooted insight into the absurdity beauty and ache of life GUARDIANI laughed I sobbed I recommended it to literally everyone I know BUZZFEEDCaptures the messy essence of being human WASHINGTON POST