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<p>‘Johanna was my closest friend, but she was also like a younger sister. Some sort of unspoken authority was vested in me, some sort of wild freedom in her’ </p>

Sigrid Rausing: ‘We – the living – are the ghosts haunting the dead’

In 2022, Sigrid Rausing’s friend of 30 years, acclaimed Swedish writer Johanna Ekström, died of terminal cancer. After her death, Rausing completed Ekström’s request that she finish her final book, which became ‘And The Walls Became The World All Around’. Here, an extract shared with ‘The Independent’ lays bare their friendship, the life and death they shared, and its living legacy

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