I just couldn't seem to help wanting to know more, most importantly, what would compel a man to propose marriage to a woman who had been told she was going to die in a matter of a few short months and also what would make her accept and then be eager to have a child. I really liked the story, but my main problem with this shortened version is that the editors seemed to pare it down to bare-bones facts. It appears that the author credits their love for one another and his wife's adoration of the child she gave birth to in the midst of her health crisis as the driving factors in her recovery.
It is indeed a story about the indomitability of the human spirit and how love really can overcome all. It is a memoir of the author's relationship with his wife who he refers to as "The Princess" and her battle with and miraculous recovery from Hodgkin's disease. This condensed version of The Princess partially fit the bill on both counts. I usually like true stories about individuals who overcome challenges in their lives and being a romance novel addict, I'm particularly fond of true love stories too. I found the Reader's Digest anthology which contains this story in a box of old books, and decided to read The Princess partly because it fit a reading challenge I was working on and partly because it sounded interesting. What follows is a miraculous story of love and the triumph of the human mind and spirit over adversity. Her fondest wish had always been to have a child, and when she becomes pregnant, she ceases her treatments for fear that they will harm her baby. Gunnar and "The Princess," as he dubs her, soon marry in spite of her seeming death sentence. Even though logic tells him to stay away, something draws him to her anyway. In 1960's Finland, writer Gunnar Mattsson meets a young nurse who has been stricken with Hodgkin's disease and has only been given a short time to live.
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