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The book is clear and well-written, though parts are understandably very emotional.

I'm glad to have read this book to get a better understanding of the situation, and hope that the inheritance laws are changed in Sweden. The last few chapters are dedicated to her unfortunate battles with Larsson's family over his legacy it is a serious problem, and very sad. Much of the book covers their 32-year relationship she also points out where the places used in the books came from, and which characters are based on real people. She gives more biographical information, emphasizing Larsson's family relationships. As Larsson's life partner, Gabrielsson has some great insight into the author's personality. This was very different from Forshaw's book, but in a good way. She chooses to tell it in short, spare, lyrical chapters, like snapshots, regaling Larsson’s readers with the inside account of how he wrote, why he wrote, who the sources were for Lisbeth and his other characters-graciously answering Stieg Larsson’s readers’ most pressing questions-and at the same time telling us the things we didn’t know we wanted to know-about love and loss, death, betrayal, and the mistreatment of women. In “There Are Things I Want You to Know” about Stieg Larsson and Me, Eva Gabrielsson accepts the daunting challenge of telling the story of their shared life steeped in love and sharpened in the struggle for justice and human rights. Her name is Eva Gabrielsson.Įva Gabrielsson and Stieg Larsson shared everything, starting when they were both eighteen until his untimely death thirty-two years later at the age of fifty. Only one person in the world knows that story well enough to tell it with authority. Here is the real inside story-not the one about the Stieg Larsson phenomenon, but rather the love story of a man and a woman whose lives came to be guided by politics and love, coffee and activism, writing and friendship.