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The Gingerbread House: An incredibly honest, humbling and touching tale of one family's struggle with dementia - Softcover

Beaufoy, Kate

 
9781785300868: The Gingerbread House: An incredibly honest, humbling and touching tale of one family's struggle with dementia
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1785300865 ISBN 13: 9781785300868
Verlag: Black and White Publishing, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Recently-redundant Tess is keen to start work on a novel and needs to make it work. She and her freelance journalist husband Donn desperately need the money and three weeks looking after Donn's aged mother while the carer takes a break seems like an opportunity to get started. She knows it'll be tough looking after Eleanor, who is suffering from increasingly severe dementia, but she'll surely find some time for herself, won't she? Arriving at the isolated country house their daughter Katia has named The Gingerbread House, a tearful Tess begins to realise that she has a far more difficult few weeks ahead than expected. Her mother-in-law is now in need of constant attention and Donn can't help as he has to stay in town for work. Narrated by Katia - their only child - who prefers not to speak but observes everything, The Gingerbread House is a deeply moving and compassionate story of a family and its tensions and struggles with her grandmother's dementia, as the reclusive teenager describes the effect it has on everyone in a strangely detached but compassionate way. But as the situation regarding her grandmother's care unfolds, a family tragedy even closer to home reveals itself --

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kate Beaufoy has an MA in French and English literature from Trinity College Dublin. As Kate Thompson she has had a dozen novels published, including the Number One bestseller The Blue Hour, which was shortlisted for the RNA award. Kate has contributed to numerous publications and broadcast media in both Ireland and the UK. A former actress, she was the recipient of a Dublin Theatre Festival Best Actress Award. She lives some of the year in Dublin and some on the West coast of Ireland, and is happily married with one daughter. Kate is an advanced-level scuba diver, a wild swimmer, and the keeper of a bewitching Burmese cat.

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Verlag
Black and White Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1785300865
ISBN 13 
9781785300868
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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