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I enjoyed this book, it really got 'under my skin'. Emma Healey paints a very convincing picture of a woman sliding progressively into dementia and I felt as if I was sliding with her! Maud is 82 and managing to live in her own home, with the help of visits from her daughter, Helen and a carer who c...
I finished this book yesterday afternoon and I still feel conflicted as to how to rate it. I enjoyed reading the book and I thought the character Maud was so well written. It felt like I was getting a real insight into how the thought process of a person with dementia works. My issue though is tha...
This book was fantastic and well worthy of the Costa First Novel Award. It tells the story of Maud who is in her eighties and is suffering from dementia. She’s trying to piece together the mystery of the disappearance of her friend, Elizabeth. Because she has dementia, she writes herself notes to ...
...who was so fascinated by her own mother's dementia that she went back to school and became a gerontologist. Cleverly written from the POV of an elderly woman with dementia, you get a small flavor as to what that might be like.
published-2014, net-galley, summer-2014, debut, mental-health, those-autumn-years, mystery-thriller, anti-q-s, a-questing-we-shall-go, britain-england, chase-me-chase-me, e-book, ipad, lifestyles-deathstyles, newtome-author, period-piece, contemporary Read from August 22 to 29, 2014 Description: ...