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*** 'An honest and thoughtful memoir. Moving but, ultimately, full
of hope. Beautiful.' KATE MOSSE 'Superb. Love & Care is a book
about the unbreakable bonds of family, the cruelty of passing time
and a love that never dies.' TONY PARSONS 'A beautiful, intimate
story of love and understanding - candid and funny. This is a
lyrical memoir of hope and forgiveness.' RAYNOR WINN, author of The
Salt Path 'He's in hospital again . . . and he's not eating.
Perhaps you should think about coming back to the UK,' Brenda said.
'I don't think your dad will be going home again.' Shaun's mother
is in a care home with Parkinson's Dementia and now his father is
dying. He should go back. And yet this was supposed to be his time.
Shaun has relocated to a new country to make a fresh start. His two
daughters are grown-up. He has moved on from the divorce. He is
single and he is free and still hoping to find love again. Will
this mean giving up on his own life? 'A heart-warming,
heart-wrenching, and beautifully humane account of loving and
caring.' NICCI GERRARD, novelist and author of What Dementia
Teaches Us About Love 'An insightful tale of care . . . this book
needed to be written.' JO GOOD, BBC Radio London 'A vital subject,
a really strong voice and, hurrah, humour makes this absorbing
reading.' CAROLINE RAPHAEL, Radio 4's Book at Bedtime 'An
eye-opening - and at times jaw dropping - account that will make
you weep with its tenderness and compassion . . . A highly readable
tale of redemption and a celebration of love's many hues.' PAUL
BLEZARD, Love Reading 'Moving' DAILY MAIL
How to Survive Your Teenage Daughter's Pregnancy If your daughter
just rattled your world with the words, "Mom, I don't know how to
tell you this, but I'm pregnant..." you may be wondering, "How are
we going to get through this and be OK?" There are so many books
written about teenage pregnancy, but none that understand what's in
the heads and hearts of the moms who are now guiding their
daughters through this very difficult season of their lives. Help!
My Teen Is Pregnant will restore your personal power when you feel
like your whole world just blew up!
Since the world fell sick with fantastical illnesses, sisters
Payton and Ani have grown up in the hospital of King Jude's. Payton
wants to be a methic like her father, working on a cure for her
mother's sleeping fever. Ani, however, thinks the remedy for all
illness might be found in the green wilderness beyond the hospital
walls. When Ani stumbles upon an imprisoned boy who turns
everything he touches to gold, her world is turned upside-down. The
girls find themselves outside the hospital for the first time, a
dark mystery unravelling ... The first teen novel from Angharad
Walker, author of critically-acclaimed The Ash House Angharad's
writing evokes the clever, unique world-building and philosophical
themes of Pullman's His Dark Materials while remaining startlingly
original The story follows two sisters in a London-inspired city
full of fantastical illness and sprawling, gothic hospitals where
dark secrets linger beneath the surface Praise for THE ASH HOUSE:
'An unexpected - and pleasing - combination of propitious and
disquieting.' KIRKUS REVIEWS 'Walker's immersive story slowly
reveals its secrets, using tension as a lever to tip the reader
deep into the Ash House's mysteries.' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'The book
has allegorical chill that settles slowly, like damp seeping in . .
. leaving readers with a feeling of ambiguous unease that may stir
for a long time in the back of their minds like the after-effects
of a nightmare.' THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
The Beautiful Struggle is an extraordinary memoir from the most
important new voice in the US race debate and the author of New
York Times bestseller list no. 1 Between the World and Me, hailed
by Toni Morrison as "required reading." This small and perfectly
formed epic follows the lives of boys on the journey to manhood in
black America and beyond in 1980s Baltimore, a city on the verge of
chaos. These youngsters needed to learn fast, and Ta-Nehisi's
father, Paul, was a fine teacher: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the
Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian, and an autodidact who
launched a publishing company in his basement. The Beautiful
Struggle is a moving father-and-son story about the reality that
tests us, and the love that saves us.
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Bird-Bent Grass chronicles an extraordinary mother-daughter
relationship that spans distance, time, and, eventually,
debilitating illness. Personal, familial, and political narratives
unfold through the letters that Geeske Venema-de Jong and her
daughter Kathleen exchanged during the late 1980s and through their
weekly conversations, which started after Geeske was diagnosed with
Alzheimer's disease twenty years later. In 1986, Kathleen accepted
a three-year teaching assignment in Uganda, after a devastating
civil war, and Geeske promised to be her daughter's most faithful
correspondent. The two women exchanged more than two hundred
letters that reflected their lively interest in literature,
theology, and politics, and explored ideas about identity,
belonging, and home in the context of cross-cultural challenges.
Two decades later, with Geeske increasingly beset by Alzheimer's
disease, Kathleen returned to the letters, where she rediscovered
the evocative image of a tiny, bright meadow bird perched
precariously on a blade of elephant grass. That image - of
simultaneous tension, fragility, power, and resilience - sustained
her over the years that she used the letters as memory prompts in a
larger strategy to keep her intellectually gifted mother alive.
Deftly woven of excerpts from their correspondence, conversations,
journal entries, and email updates, Bird-Bent Grass is a complex
and moving exploration of memory, illness, and immigration;
friendship, conflict, resilience, and forgiveness; cross-cultural
communication, the ethics of international development, and
letter-writing as a technology of intimacy. Throughout, it reflects
on the imperative and fleeting business of being alive and loving
others while they're ours to hold.
Discover a daughter's journey into her father's past in this Sunday
Times bestseller and winner of the 2016 Costa Biography Award.
Keggie Carew grew up under the spell of an unorthodox, enigmatic
father. An undercover guerrilla agent during the Second World War,
in peacetime he lived on his wits and dazzling charm. But these
were not always enough to sustain a family. As his memory began to
fail, Keggie embarked on a quest to unravel his story once and for
all. Dadland is that journey. It takes us into shadowy corners of
history, a madcap English childhood, the poignant breakdown of a
family, the corridors of dementia and beyond. 'OH THIS BOOK.
Beautiful and fierce and brave. Memory and war and family and loss
and, well, wow' Helen Macdonald, bestselling author of H is for
Hawk 'A thrilling history of Churchill's Special Operations
Executive... combined ingeniously with a tender, moving, funny
portrait of the author's father' Nick Hornby, Observer
Austerity Baby might best be described as an 'oblique memoir'.
Janet Wolff's fascinating volume is a family history - but one that
is digressive and consistently surprising. The central underlying
and repeated themes of the book are exile and displacement; lives
(and deaths) during the Third Reich; mother-daughter and sibling
relationships; the generational transmission of trauma and
experience; transatlantic reflections; and the struggle for
creative expression. Stories mobilised, and people encountered, in
the course of the narrative include: the internment of aliens in
Britain during the Second World War; cultural life in Rochester,
New York, in the 1920s; the social and personal meanings of
colour(s); the industrialist and philanthropist, Henry Simon of
Manchester, including his relationship with the Norwegian explorer,
Fridtjof Nansen; the liberal British campaigner and MP of the
1940s, Eleanor Rathbone; reflections on the lives and images of
spinsters. The text is supplemented and interrupted throughout by
images (photographs, paintings, facsimile documents), some of which
serve to illustrate the story, others engaging indirectly with the
written word. -- .
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