Product Description

Until 2003, Ulla-Carin Lindquist had balanced a high-flying media career with the demands of her four children. Then suddenly she was diagnosed with a terminal illness. In the last year of her life she wrote this heartbreaking memoir. Powerfully moving, yet also uplifting, it is an unforgettable story about the indomitable power of language and love, about motherhood and about finally letting go.

(20050113)

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #379283 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-08
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Oliver Sacks
‘I have never read anything like it ... searing, beautiful, terrifying, and, at the same time, affirming – and reassuring’

Review
‘If you take this book to heart, it could and should change the way you live’

 

(Sunday Telegraph 20050508)

'Astonishing ... life-affirming' (Daily Mail 20050601)

'Extraordinary ... beautifully written' (Scotland on Sunday 20050601)

‘I have never read anything like it - its quietness, its courage, its lucidity; I found it searing, beautiful, terrifying, and, at the same time, affirming - and reassuring’ (Oliver Sacks )

'The astonishing triumph of her book is that its lasting impression is not one of hospitals and the endless prodding and probing that accompanies serious illness, but of sunlight on water, children's laughter, winter flowers.' (Daily Mail )

'Remarkable ... a quietly moving and direct account not just of her sadness at knowing she would leave her family, but of the joy she was able to feel when she relaxed enough to live in the moment' (The Times )

'A remarkable account of one woman's courage when confronted with her own terminal illness' (Belfast Telegraph )

‘The smartness and extreme bravery of Lindquist’s narrative … intelligent … elegant’

 

(Financial Times )

'An extraordinary book'

(Bookseller )

'I would recommend this book to everyone and I am sure that reading groups would find a great many of issues to discuss - in fact, I have started to read it again'

(New Books )

‘The intimate exchanges with her children, and the detail with which she describes her decline, leave the reader feeling like a confidante ... an articulate and sensitive memoir’

(Easy Living )

'Compelling'

(Prima )

‘A dignified and courageous account ... beautifully written and very moving.’

 

(Woman & Home )

Daily Mail
'A quiet, courageous book ... life-affirming'

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Customer Reviews

An amazing book written beautifully by a dying woman .
As a Hospice nurse I have cared for a number of people with Motor Neurone Disease ( or ALS) and have often been moved by their courage in coping with the devastating consequences of this very debilitating disease. The author of this book has given me an insight into the strength of the human spirit that enables someone to still find joy even though everything that person holds dear is being lost, including life itself. An inspiring legacy.

a simple and very honest account
I bought this book having seen it reviewed in the paper and I am glad to have read it. It must be a very scary and frightening thing to have to go through, to be told you only have so little time left with the ones you love.Ulla-carin must have been a very brave person. Not a gripping page turner but read this for it's simplicity and honesty.

Rowing without oars
I work with people that have ALS and found this book a emotional accurate book that EVERY ONE MUST READ . i had to read it right through from cover to cover. it is well written through the eyes of the writer that has ALS .If ever you you read one book in your life then it Must be this one I urge every one to BUY THIS BOOK !!!!!!!!!!!!!