The city where she was raised and where the storyline for her first book was born. Sophie van der Stap lived here as a Political Science student and a writer until she moved to Paris at age 25.
She was 21 years old when she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. The Girl with the Nine Wigs, her fresh and candid account of the illness, was a best-seller in Holland and got soon translated into 16 languages worldwide and was the inspiration for an international movie (to be released in 2012).
A sequel, inspired on Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha, followed. It’s called ‘A blue butterfly bids farewell’ and talks about the journey after her illness.
The city of which she dreamed and where she found the storyline for her third book but first novel.
Living among the Parisians helped her find the characters, drawn from the streets of Paris, that are described in ‘En wat als dit liefde is.’ The novel questions the influence of social media on life and love.
