When Alice finds herself in the rapidly downward spiral of Alzheimer's Disease she is just fifty years old. A university professor, wife, and mother of three, she still has so much more to do - books to write, places to see, grandchildren to meet. But when she can't remember how to make her famous Christmas pudding, when she gets lost in her own back yard, when she fails to recognise her actress daughter after a superb performance, she comes up with a desperate plan. But can she see it through? Should she see it through?
Losing her yesterdays, living for each day, her short-term memory is hanging on by a couple of frayed threads. But she is still Alice.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
ISBN: 9781849838429
Number of pages: 400
Dimensions: 198 x 130 mm
Edition: Reissue
A well-written book about a middle aged woman confronting a disease most of us know little about and greatly fear. But this isn't how the book strikes the reader with its insights, deftness of touch and humanity.... More
Alice Howland is a successful linguistics professor at Harvard when she is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's Disease at the age of fifty. A life that was once full of travel, lectures, reading, running, and... More
I found this story profoundly sad, disturbing and thought-provoking when I read it soon after it was first published. When I was faced with reading it for a second time (as a reading group choice) I wondered whether... More
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