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EVERYTHING I BUILT

A Novel

Sabine Croft

Margit Lindqvist knows exactly how it looks from the outside: a planned transition, a graceful exit, a woman who knew when to go. She lets people keep that version, because it is kinder than the truth. The truth is that after twenty-six years climbing toward the presidency of a cookware company she helped remake into something bigger than its founder ever imagined, Margit resigned on an ordinary Tuesday having finally noticed that some part of her had already left-and that she no longer entirely trusted the person the job had made her into.

What follows is not the story of a woman who walks away and immediately finds herself. It is the story of the year in between: the specific, almost bodily grief of a title dissolving; the discovery that half her closest professional relationships were built around her function rather than around her; the unwelcome return of an old, private fear about money that turns out to have nothing to do with her bank balance and everything to do with a childhood she thought she'd left behind long ago. In a garage that used to be for nothing in particular, Margit picks up a skill she learned from her father and abandoned decades before college, and finds, to her own surprise, that her hands remember what the rest of her forgot.

Then comes an offer-the kind of role most people would call a gift, tangible good on a scale she could never have managed at her old desk-and Margit must weigh it against the smaller, quieter, harder-won life she has only just begun to build. Everything I Built resists the tidy arc of the corporate-escape narrative at every turn, refusing to promise that leaving was simply right, or that peace, once found, stays found.

WRITTEN FOR readers who love clear-eyed, intelligent novels of reinvention and midlife reckoning-stories that take ambition seriously without romanticizing it, and that trust a reader to sit with an ending that is honest rather than triumphant.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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• Plný název: Everything I Built
• Autor: Sabine Croft
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 178
• EAN: 9788245351385
• ISBN: 8245351385
• ID: 53826568
• Nakladatelství: Sabine Croft
• Hmotnost: 248 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 10 mm
• Datum vydání: 05. September 2026

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