The co-creator of the longest-running Swedish soap opera in history sends white-hot sparks of sensuality shooting over Scandinavia with a clearly political manifesto disguised as an entertaining literary soap.

Her best-selling novel Stjärnor utan svindel (Stars Without Dizziness, 1996) is a semi-autobiographical tale, telling the story of 32-year-old Sophie (that is Louise), who enjoys conjugal contentment with a businessman while building a career as a novelist and journalist.

The couple's serenely bourgeois life lurches toward the wild side, however, when lesbian radical feminist Kaja stalks on the scene, and the friendship between the two women erupts into a passionate love affair.

Louise, too, was married to a man when she fell in love and started a relationship with a prominent feminist in Stockholm, the journalist Mian Lodalen. The story is set in a lovingly described Stockholm.