Rowing without Oars

by Ulla-CarinLindquist (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $3.25

  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.

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $3.25

  With a highflying career, a renowned surgeon as a husband, and four gorgeous children, Ulla-Carin Lindquist is a woman who seemingly has everything. Then, on her fiftieth birthday, she is suddenly diagnosed with ALS, an aggressive and incurable form of motor neurone disease. Within a year, Ulla-Carin will die. Rowing without Oars is the story of this final year. In writing striking for its honesty, simplicity and unexpected humour, Ulla-Carin describes how it feels to be losing control of her life, and to know that soon she will die and leave her beloved husband and children. The result is a heart-breaking book. It is also one of the most inspiring and uplifting memoirs of recent years.