Königin ausser Dienst

"This book is not just special because it was written by someone recovering from a stroke. This book is world literature, period." Venticare Magazine

Martine is successful, famous, standing in the middle of life, when one autumn morning "a balloon bursts behind her eyes." A brain hemorrhage abruptly changes the author's life.
Before she dies four years later as a result of the disease, Martine Bijl writes a book that provides unique, touching and painfully honest insights. In haunting, even poetic images, with admirable strength and self-irony, Martine Bijl describes what it is like "to be afraid in your head, and not understand why and of what". A book that makes the seemingly impossible possible, that allows us to better understand people whose perception is clouded. A book that gives courage.