Touched a survivor’s story
Berørt. En overlevers beretning
More and more people survive cancer. But the illness stays with you for ever.
Spring 2006 Mette noticed the first symptoms of what turned out to be cancer, more precisely cervical cancer. She was then 42 years old and lived a good life in Oslo together with her husband and three children. She had a challenging and hectic job as partner and managing director in a Strategy and Management-Concultancy.
Then the cancer struck once, twice and three times, and life was turned upside down for Mette and her family. In the book we follow her from her first hunch and denial, through days of hope and despair, pain and fighting, towards accept and reconciliation with her new situation as a troubled survivor.
It’s a breathtaking story on how Mette deals with serious illness for herself and her family. How she learns to live a life with chronic pain. How it is to have her identity as a woman, a mother and a working person all shaken up. How it is to be confronted with the inevitability of death. But most of all it is a book of love to the ones she is close to, to life, to here and now.
An intimate, honest and positive book for everyone who is somehow touched by cancer or any serious illness.
Gyldendal 2011
250 Pages
Praise
“A raw, sensitive and honest book on living life with cancer. Touched is like a prescription. You get well with it.”
Per Fugelli, Professor of Social Medicine
“What impresses me with Mette Grøholdt’s story is her total honesty combined with the irrepressible determination to survive. I have read some books on cancer, but none like this.”
Jon Michelet, Klassekampen
