If you want something done you have to do it yourself, as usual, Ove confirms to himself as he steers his steps alone towards the cashier. And not until Ove roars, ‘Have you been frontally lobotomised or what!?’ to the young man who’s trying to show him the shop’s range of portable computers does Jimmy come hurrying to his aid. And then it’s not Ove but rather the shop assistant who needs to be aided.
