Israeli-born author Edeet Ravel has written a novel in six weeks inspired by a tragedy that took place in Norway.

Israeli-born author Edeet Ravel wrote a novel in record-breaking six weeks. The novel titled "The Cat," was inspired by the tragedy in Norway where a gunman had opened fire at a youth camp on a Norwegian holiday island, killing 77 people. Though the book doesn't really detail the tragic incident, Ravel bases her story on the loss of a mother.

The novel is about Elise, who is a single mother. She loses her only child in a sudden freak accident. Distraught, she at first wants to join her son - but then realizes she must stay alive to care for his beloved cat, which gradually draws her back into life.

Ravel began writing the book July 23, 2011. She revealed to Reuter that she remembered the date y well since it was the day she read about the tragic incident. She immediately thought of the many parents who had lost their children and began writing the book. Ravel said that she couldn't stop writing and used to find herself scribbling lines late into the nights and sometimes even at weird places.

"I simply couldn't stop writing. I'd go to bed scratching sentences in the dark as I fell asleep. I woke up with sentences ready to go and I'd have to rush to the computer to get it all down before doing anything else," she tells Reuters. "I had to leave my exercise class to scribble sentences in the margin of the schedule. Like the time that I left a bar mitzvah in the middle and I went to the ladies' room and I began scribbling on the bar mitzvah program. It was going on constantly for about six weeks, until the first draft was finished."