Take Care, Son
The Story of My Dad and his Dementia
$36.90
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2014
Summary
‘Hi Dad … can we have a chat about your dementia … Can you remember how it started?’
When Ron Husband started to forget things - dates, names, appointments … daft things, important things - it took a while to realise that this was ‘a different form of forgetting’. But it was just the first sign of the illness that gradually took him away from the family he loved.
This is the touching, illustrated story of Tony’s father and how dementia slowly took him away from his family. The…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472115560 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472115562 |
| Author: | Tony Husband |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Robinson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2014 |
| Weight: | 140g |
| Dimensions: | 174mm x 174mm x 10mm |
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Critics Review
A heartbreaking picturebook unlike any other… a profoundly poignant account that will strike a chord with so many families touched by this cruellest of illnesses.
A heartbreaking picturebook unlike any other… a profoundly poignant account that will strike a chord with so many families touched by this cruellest of illnesses. - Daily Mail
This is a classic which shall surely find a place in every home which is touched by dementia. It should be on offer in every Memory Service and every general practitioner’ssurgery. - Old Age PsychiatristAbout The Author
Tony Husband
Tony Husband is a British cartoonist whose cartoons contain much black humour. His cartoons have appeared in many newspapers, magazines, books and websites, in several TV and theatrical productions, and are often found on humorous greeting cards, and he has a regular cartoon strip in Private Eye entitled Yobs, which has run from the late 1980s. He co-wrote the Round the Bend children’s television series, which ran from 1989 to 1991. He was also involved with Hangar 17, which ran from 1992 to 1994. He and the poet Ian McMillan tour the UK regularly with their show A Cartoon History of Here, an evening of live, improvised poetry and cartoons. He has won The Cartoon Museum’s Pont Award.
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