In this book you meet five lovely characters living in a retirement home. For each day passing they find their lives less and less meaningful and everything is taken away from them. They sing together in a quire and one day (when they realize that they will get no Christmas decorations) they decide that life in this home stinks! In prison they would be better off! That would be more comfortable and stimulating then the life they live so they set out to get into prison. But they are to good thieves and things starts happening that no one could ever have dreamed of. Funny and heartwarming and also some rather sharp descriptions of how we treat and regard elderly people today! One of them, Martha, dreams one night that she actually robs the bank, but they don’t take her for real, they think that she is old and confused and harmless …. When the whole senior league stops dreaming of a better life and goes for some real changes – forget confused and harmless …

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Natasha Harding at Pan Macmillan has acquired the Swedish bestseller THE
LITTLE OLD LADY WHO BROKE ALL THE RULES by Catharina Ingelman Sundberg, the
first in a new granny lit series.

Harding struck pre-emptively, buying WEL rights from Barbara Zitwer. The
plan is to publish quickly. Zitwer acted on behalf of the Grand Agency in
Sweden, and the book has already sold in 11 countries; SVT has bought rights
for a TV series.

The novel tells the story of 79-year-old Martha, who, along with a group of
her best friends, breaks out of a dreary nursing home. They become art and
jewel thieves, land in jail and then escape from a mafia hit squad, and run
off into the sunset to other adventures and trouble.

"I am absolutely thrilled to have acquired The Little Old Lady Who Broke All
the Rules," said Harding. "This is a delightfully charming story about a
woman growing old disgracefully - and breaking all the rules along the way!
Incredibly quirky, heart-warming and humorous, this book will be perfect for
fans of The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel."

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