After a close shave with murder, life in the Arctic helped me overcome debilitating fear

Isolation in Greenland helped stop constant worrying about my daughter ’s safetyIn recent years I ’ve often felt on top of the world, but I also know what it’s like to teeter on the edge of the precipice, unsure whether I could save myself. Six years ago, I was an author with two conspiracy thrillers under my belt; both were bestsellers in Denmark and my path as a writer seemed set. But a fe w short moments, out walking with my 11-year-old daughter on an ordinary summer’s day, changed everything.We would often take a stroll past an abandoned sawmill near our house – something we’d been doing all my daughter’s life. Our house was built more than a century ago by the owner of the sawmill, and even though it didn’t come with the house when we bought it, we would laugh about it being ours.Continue reading...
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