Strong-willed, eccentric, passionate women are the driving force behind first-time novelist Linn Ullmann's new book "Before You Sleep." The story is set in present-day Norway and Brooklyn of the 1930s. Ullmann has experience with both places. She was born in Oslo and at age 15 moved to New York with her mother, actress Liv Ullmann, where she quickly absorbed the English language and American culture. Ullmann, who is also the daughter of director Ingmar Bergman, eventually moved back to Norway and became a journalist. When her love for writing spawned the beginnings of her novel, Ullmann wondered whether to write it in English or Norwegian.