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Matthew - A Memoir (Hardcover, 1st Paul Dry Books ed)
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Matthew - A Memoir (Hardcover, 1st Paul Dry Books ed)
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List price R679
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Discovery Miles 5 820
You Save R97 (14%)
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From the moment she first held her new-born son in her arms, Anne
Crosby knew something was wrong with him. Although the staff at the
London hospital dismissed her response as cruel and unmaternal, her
instincts were correct: Matthew had Down syndrome. Struggling with
feelings of shock and grief, Crosby determined that she would do
whatever she could to help Matthew lead as full a life as possible.
This is the moving, candid, insightful, and often surprising
account of the life Matthew made with the help of his mother and
other caring people. With her painter's eye for the colourful
detail and a Dickensian ear for the voices of her characters,
Crosby describes Matthew's family and friends, doctors and teachers
- a large cast that includes Alice Strong, his Cockney caregiver,
the famous child psychologist D W Winnicott, and Princess Anne, a
benefactor of MacIntyre, Matthew's boarding school. Crosby evokes
the forbidding atmosphere of Normansfield, the residential
institution founded by the man who gave his name to Down syndrome;
the spacious beauty of Mentmore, the country estate where she often
took Matthew for outings; and the touching camaraderie of the
hospital ward in which Matthew died of heart failure at
twenty-four. In this remarkable memoir, Crosby also explores
Matthew's inner life, revealing his playful mimicry and unexpected
humour, his outbursts of affection and occasional fits of temper,
his gallantry toward his first love, and his disappointment over
the loss of his first job. Anne Crosby's portrait of her son gives
us an abiding image of Matthew that deepens our understanding of
what it means to be human.
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