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A Wonderful World - A Gentleman's true story; Yorkshire in 1937; serving in the British Army; to fighting with Dementia (Paperback)
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A Wonderful World - A Gentleman's true story; Yorkshire in 1937; serving in the British Army; to fighting with Dementia (Paperback)
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Loot Price R491
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A colourful autobiography. Peter Horn describes being raised in a
small Yorkshire village, unrecognisable today, where horses and
carts, and pigs in the public bar were normal. However, Peter was
growing up in a country at the tail end of its Empire, and in a
part of the country where opportunity was limited to the soon to be
declining industries of the woollen mills and farming. Peter seized
the opportunity of casting his net wider, to see and experience
other cultures. travelling the world with the British Army, to
places as far flung and varied as Brunei, Libya and Northern
Ireland. Later years are sadly characterised by the toll of age,
both in the author and loved ones with his true account of coping
and managing the cruel progression of dementia and the impact this
had on him and his family and so his story needed to end with a
first-person polemic on the treatment of older adults in the UK
within the care system, and more specifically his beloved wife,
Moira. True to his word and his vows, through sickness and in
health and faced with many challenges with the social care systems,
he promised Moira he would never leave her side and care for her
right to the very end, and that he honoured with humour, dignity
and respect.
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