JENNIFER PLATT | Anxious about what to read? Then bear down on Backman. His offerings are winners
‘Anxious People’ author Fredrik Backman has just released ‘The Winners’, the sequel to his 2016 offering, ‘Beartown’
09 November 2022 - 20:44
The good ol’ movie/series vs book debate started for me again. I was exploring Netflix and among the algorithm recommendations was comedy-drama series Anxious People. It sounded fun: “A failed bank robber locks himself in a home, along with a real estate agent, two Ikea addicts, a pregnant woman, a suicidal millionaire and a rabbit.” It seemed familiar from the opening sequence, and I realised it was based on Fredrik Backman’s novel of the same name...
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