Just because the world ignores you, doesn’t mean you can’t save it
Nombeko Mayeki is on the run from the world's most ruthless secret service - with three Chinese sisters, twins who are officially one person, and an elderly potato farmer. Oh, and the fate of the King of Sweden - and the world - rests on her shoulders.
Born in a Soweto shack in 1961, Nombeko is destined for a short, hard life. When she is run over by a drunken engineer, her luck changes. Alive, but blamed for the accident, she is sent to work for the driver - the brandy-soaked head of a project vital to South Africa's security. Nombeko may be good at cleaning, but she's amazing with numbers. The drunken engineer isn't - and has made a big mistake. And only Nombeko knows about it...
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden, Jonas Jonasson
Read for this month's face to face bookclub, it was one of those books that happily divided the group. Light and fun, some liked and some were bored. Have to admit I was in the like group finding this amusing and slightly silly on one level, and actually a bit of a morality play on another. Full of lovely little cameo's, odd little highways and byways and things that made me everything from smile to laugh out loud. Still tickled by the idea of Agent B and Nombeko standing at police lines, watching a warehouse burn down, with a nuclear bomb in a crate on a trailer parked on the other side of the road - okay so it made me laugh :)