A couple of years ago, Doris Dahlin celebrated her 50th anniversary as a writer. She wrote her first book, The Sit-In Game, as a young teenager. It was accepted by Astrid Lindgren and published by the publisher Rabén & Sjögren in 1971. Seven fiction books followed, the best known of which is perhaps the autobiographical The Abode of Shame, which was a great success with both critics and readers. She then wrote the acclaimed and popular novels We Probably Know Who You Are and To Mother on Mothers´day among others.
Doris is also the author of 7 non fiction books as well as having written song lyrics.
Doris has a background as a solution-oriented behavioral scientist and therapist. All her life she has worked to understand and resolve the communication tangles that constantly arise between us. She did this for many years as a therapist and consultant with a focus on relationships at work.
It is a grey winter when this book begins, a young woman slips around in the wet snow in the city, walks towards the bus and the very early morning takes her to a small village where she has never been before. In the village there is a house, and inside there is the kitchen table where two parents talk about their adult child whom they love above everything else, but whom they are now not allowed to meet. There is a house where silence shoots arrows into the silence and where the man thinks he has fulfilled his nuclear family quota. There is the stingy Blueberry tramp and the angry old woman who thinks you can’t be a friend to a little flower when you are dealing with shitty boots. There is the woman who disappears.
