Description
| Product ID: | 9781788402477 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Remember Me? |
| Subtitle: | Discovering My Mother as She Lost Her Memory |
| Authors: | Author: Shobna Gulati |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Individual actors and performers, Individual actors & performers, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Memoirs, Alzheimer’s and dementia, Coping with / advice about illness and specific health conditions, Self-help, personal development and practical advice, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, Memoirs, Alzheimer’s & dementia, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Self-help & personal development |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Remember Me? is a heartbreakingly courageous and tender memoir on losing a parent to dementia which captures memory at its most fragile and its most revealing. The book tells the story of a mind unravelling and the hidden stories that lay within it. Afterword by Alzheimer''s Research UK.''Shobna Gulati is the Northern heroine of a nation'' - Lemn Sissay''Lucid and probing'' - Guardian''Wonderful and emotional, a masterpiece of resilience.'' - Emma KennedyRemember Me? is a memoir about caring for a parent with dementia and the memories that resurface in the process.In her first book, Shobna Gulati sets out to reclaim her mother''s past after her death, and in turn, discovers a huge amount about herself and their relationship. Remember Me? captures the powerful emotions that these memories hold to both Shobna and her mother; secrets they had collectively buried and also the concealment of her mother''s condition. What ensues is a story of cultural assimilation, identity and familial shame. |
| Imprint Name: | Cassell |
| Publisher Name: | Octopus Publishing Group |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-09-17 |
