Many people have given their time to help create this book, not least those who agreed to be interviewed and the people who arranged those interviews. The Karl-Adam Bonnier Foundation in Stockholm commissioned the research for an earlier version of this book – published in 2018 as Bumblebee Nation: The Hidden Story of the New Swedish Model – and gave me freedom to follow my own nose. How I carried out this project is entirely my own responsibility. Mats Bergstrand shared his connections. Beth Eynon at Blink made a brilliant edit. Thanks also to Heather Farmbrough, Eric Zsiga, Peter Jervelycke Belfrage, Camilla and Steve Flood, and Orla Vigsø for editorial insight and painstaking corrections, and to Karin Wallström Nordén for allowing me flexibility to fit this project around my other work commitments. Thank you to my wonderful family and friends in England for helping me through the big leap north. Annika introduced me to a new life in Sweden, for which my gratitude is boundless.