“Anita Laughlin’s delightful account of the magical, stressful, surreal, chaotic, enchanting, and awesome Stockholm experience brought back warm memories of my own trip to Stockholm and the joyful yet daunting way in which it changed my life and the life of my family.” -William Phillips, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics

“An entertaining account of the majesty Nobel prize festivities.”-Anne and Robert Bass, President of Keystone Group, L.P.

“Anita Laughlin has given us an open-hearted, humorous, inside-the-Nobel laureate-beltway account of when she and her husband Bob first received the news to her eventual surprise and delight at spending a week in snowy Stockholm, as a suburban American being dazzled by the charms of the old world—banquets full of royalty, jewels, flowers, taffeta gowns, and brilliantly lit rooms. You see the clothes and smell the flowers; you feel and see the snowy, dark weather and the brilliant lights and torches. You feel the moods of the laureates and sense the collective thrill of their individual accomplishments. Laughlin invites you in, and you're quickly carried away with her gimlet-eyed descriptions of how she and her husband Bob first get the news, how they begin to prepare, and then get swept up by being feted at the White House, and then on to their week in Stockholm with the King and Queen of Sweden, and the after-hours parties with crazy, raucous students.” -Mary Reath, author of Rome and Canterbury (2007)

“Wonderful read. Ms. Laughlin manages to make you both yearn to be the Physics professor from Stanford whose dream has finally come true, and also to be the wife of the Nobel Prize winner, who will be accompanying her husband. The book is full of humor and humanism. I learned a lot about how to handle being the spouse of a talented scientist where work is not something you can discuss, yet you must find a way to graciously attend to your dinner partners and not lose yourself at the same time.” -Thea Selby, Women in Periodical Publishing, Co-Founder