For more than 30 years, the friends Astrid Lindgren and Margareta Strömstedt met and talked about everything between life and death. Just in time for Astrid Lindgren's 90th birthday, Astrid's klokbok was compiled, a life drawing in miniature - with short characteristic episodes from a long life of writing and journalism. Despite its small format, Astrid's wise book succeeds in giving a close picture of a unique author and a popular opinion maker, "a wise and reasonably cheerful farm girl in her prime".