Thank you for all the kind words after my participation in TV4's @efterfem Hundred Days in July is about Maia and Tim, but in the program I told you that the book is also about my mother and me. It started last summer. I had just finished writing the first draft of the book and named it Hundred Days in July when my mother started having pain in her legs. The pain got worse and worse, and after a while she sought help. She was admitted to the hospital in Motala on July 1, believing it was a herniated disc. But after careful examinations it turned out that she had cancer. We tried to keep hope up, but she quickly got worse, and in the end we got the terrible news that there was nothing more that could be done. She spent her last days at home and a month later, on August 1, she fell asleep. Honestly, I don't know what it's like to live with a sick child and the terrible wait for a new heart. But I know exactly how Maia feels when she stands dejectedly in the window of Motala Hospital looking out over Lake Vättern in the middle of July. And I know what it's like to cling to hope and to live with the powerlessness of not being able to help. It was the worst summer of my life, and I still can't understand the improbability of being forced to experience a situation so similar to the one Maia goes through in the book. Mom was always one of the first to read my scripts; she liked the covers and poked around in the back texts. She never got to read A Hundred Days in July. But the book is, of course, dedicated to her. The sadness and the loss are enormous, but I'm still so grateful that she's my mom ♥️♥️♥️ You can find the link to the interview on after five here:
