Where Memories Go
why dementia changes everything - as heard on bbc r4 book of the week
$36.61
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2015
Summary
Losing Mamie: A Daughter’s Journey Through Dementia
‘A fine book’ The Sunday Times
‘Powerful’ Guardian
‘Wonderful’ The Telegraph
‘Moving, funny, warm’ Mail on Sunday
‘Brave, compassionate, tender and honest’ Metro
This book began as an attempt to hold on to my witty, storytelling mother with the one thing I had …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444751819 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1444751816 |
| Author: | Sally Magnusson |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | Two Roads |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2015 |
| Weight: | 301g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 34mm |
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Critics Review
Beautifully written and honest.
Touching… There are many moments of heartwarming sentiment. Literary snowdrops grow out of the barren earth… This book is the constant, tenuous but vital reconnection between a child and its mother… A fine book. - The Sunday Times
Powerful. - GuardianThis is an extraordinarily moving memoir which is, at the same time, a fascinating exploration of a condition that touches virtually every family. This book will help our understanding. - Alexander McCall SmithIntensely moving and inspiring, it is as much about living, laughing and family life as it is about loss and death. I read it in one sitting and thought about it again and again.’ - Joanna Lumley‘I was in tears on the very first page. - Kirsty WarkAbout The Author
Sally Magnusson
Broadcaster and journalist Sally Magnusson has written 10 books, most famously, her Sunday Times bestseller, Where Memories Go (2014) about her mother’s dementia.
Half-Icelandic, half Scottish, Sally has inherited a rich storytelling tradition. Her debut novel, The Sealwoman’s Gift, was a Radio 2 Book Club and Zoe Ball Book Club selection, and was shortlisted for several prizes, including the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year, the Paul Torday Memorial Prize, the McKitterick Prize, the Waverton Good Read Award and the HWA Debut Fiction Crown.
The Ninth Child, her second novel, publishes in spring 2020.
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