A Lonely Place is an autobiographical novel by Swedish writer Christina Sandberg. The action takes place in 2016. After receiving the August Prize for the novel “Life at any Cost,” fame comes to the author, she is invited to numerous lectures and meetings with readers. She understands that this is a very important period in life, opening up new opportunities. At the same time, the heroine feels that her strength is running out, and a strange pain in her chest causes concern. Christina puts off visiting the doctor for a long time, but in the end she is given a terrible diagnosis - an aggressive form of breast cancer. The whole familiar life is collapsing. This book contains a hospital diary, and memories of childhood in the 1970s, and painful thoughts about the fragility of the human body, about the present and the future, and fear for your loved ones. But above all, this is a book about how a terrible disease makes a person endlessly lonely. Christina Sandberg (b. 1971) is a famous Swedish writer, literary critic, laureate of the. August Strindberg (2014), Prize named after. Selma Lagerlöf (2019) and other awards.