Charlotte Link
These people are now supporting the author
Charlotte Link
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The German writer Charlotte Link had to cancel all planned readings for 2024 due to health problems. In the coming months, in which she will focus on her “healing”, she can rely on a large circle of family and friends.
“[M]Sometimes life throws big stones in your path. As big as boulders.” It could be a sentence from one of Charlotte Link’s bestselling books. In fact, these are the words that the 60-year-old addressed to her Instagram followers on June 14, 2024. The author is thus making public health problems that would force her to take a break. Her recovery is now her top priority.
The German crime writer has not revealed what her illness is. However, she vehemently asserts that she can rely on her strong environment.
Charlotte Link’s husband and adopted daughter support her
This includes her husband and her adopted daughter in particular. Charlotte Link and her husband have been going through life together for 30 years. Her daughter is now 23 years old and her mother’s pride and joy. The author always keeps the weekends free to spend time with her loved ones.
“For me, there is nothing more important and beautiful than family,” Link wrote at the beginning of May in a private photo that shows her with her daughter and niece. “In the picture are two beautiful young women: my sister’s daughter Franziska (blonde) and my own daughter (red-haired). Me in between. In love with both of them,” the author of “The Deception” raves on social media. Because in addition to her husband and daughter, it is her sister’s children who are particularly important in her life.
Charlotte Link: She has a special relationship with her sister’s children
Charlotte Link’s sister died in February 2012 at the age of 46. Franziska was diagnosed with cancer for the first time in her 20s. “Franziska was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease, a form of lymph gland cancer, at the age of 23. She beat the disease through very tough chemotherapy and radiotherapy,” Link explained in an interview with the “Penguin” publishing house. At the age of 41, the cancer returned. Her sister fought for six years. “She would never have developed colon cancer, which she developed at the age of 41, if it hadn’t been for the radiation treatments eighteen years earlier. She ultimately died from the severe damage the radiation had caused to her lungs,” said the 60-year-old.
Since then, Charlotte Link has often taken the place at Franziska’s children’s side. In 2023, the bestselling author proudly posed next to her nephew Maximilian when he married his Korean girlfriend Suyoun. Franziska’s daughter also appears on the Instagram channel. Her aunt was – and always will be – a great support for her niece and nephew. Now Charlotte Link can safely rely on her too.
The author trusts in the “healing power” of her three dogs
In addition to people, Link draws a lot of strength from the time she spends with her animals. “Dogs are very important in my life,” the bestselling author revealed in a “Brigitte Live” interview at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2015. Nothing has changed to this day. Charlotte Link is still committed to animal welfare and finds peace and security in her three dogs.
The four-legged friends will also play a major role in this difficult phase of her life. This is proven by the selection of photos that Link chose to publish her illness: The 60-year-old can be seen with one of her dogs, who is lovingly licking the back of her hand. She has her eyes closed and her lips are covered in a gentle smile. “Never underestimate the healing power of animals. It is immeasurable, I have experienced it many times,” emphasizes Link in her article.
Charlotte Link: “I’m on a very good path”
The “Lonely Night” author will now take the time to concentrate on her recovery. She chose to go public solely because her reading tour was planned for autumn 2024 and she wanted to explain the reason for her absence.
“I am on a very good path and certainly not in danger of dying,” Link reassured her readers one day after announcing her health problems. New readings are planned for 2025. “Which suggests that I will most likely not be dead or otherwise severely handicapped,” the writer affirmed.
Sources used: instagram.com, stern.de, gettotext.de, penguin.de, news.de