The Little Girl In The Radiator
Mum, Alzheimer's And Me
Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Patient Care, Caregiving, Family & Relationships, Aging, Eldercare, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Martin Slevin | ISBN: | 1230001032512 |
| Publisher: | Monday Books | Publication: | April 13, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Martin Slevin |
| ISBN: | 1230001032512 |
| Publisher: | Monday Books |
| Publication: | April 13, 2016 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
A TOUCHING TALE of love, loss and family, The Little Girl in the Radiator is the moving, amusing and uplifting story of one ordinary man's struggle to care for his mother after she develops Alzheimer's Disease.
Rose Slevin was was a highly active, intelligent and fiercely independent woman who ran her own business and ruled her son, Martin, and his father, Bernard, with a rod of iron. But after Bernard dies, her life crumbles, and she becomes listless and forgetful.
Eventually, she is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and Martin puts his own life on hold and moves into her house to care for her. Together, they embark on a journey through the various stages of the condition; the destination is never in doubt, but along the way there are many lighter moments, as she shaves the dog’s bottom, holds sing-songs with an imaginary Irish band and pins all of Martin’s socks to the wall.
And all the time, the question nags away at him: who is the little girl in the radiator, with whom his mum has urgent, whispered conversations each day?
Winner of the Chairman's Choice Award (and highly commended in the Popular Medicine category) at the British Medical Association's annual book prize, judge Professor Sheila Hollins said The Little Girl in the Radiator was her favourite book in the whole competition, adding, 'This is a funny but heartbreaking account of a mother's decline into the world of an Alzheimer's sufferer. I laughed and I cried.'
"Deeply loving yet wryly comic... The most moving portrait of this cruel disease you'll ever read" - The Daily Mail
'Incredibly well written ... very entertaining and amusing', Dr Natalie Smith, Pulse Magazine.
A TOUCHING TALE of love, loss and family, The Little Girl in the Radiator is the moving, amusing and uplifting story of one ordinary man's struggle to care for his mother after she develops Alzheimer's Disease.
Rose Slevin was was a highly active, intelligent and fiercely independent woman who ran her own business and ruled her son, Martin, and his father, Bernard, with a rod of iron. But after Bernard dies, her life crumbles, and she becomes listless and forgetful.
Eventually, she is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and Martin puts his own life on hold and moves into her house to care for her. Together, they embark on a journey through the various stages of the condition; the destination is never in doubt, but along the way there are many lighter moments, as she shaves the dog’s bottom, holds sing-songs with an imaginary Irish band and pins all of Martin’s socks to the wall.
And all the time, the question nags away at him: who is the little girl in the radiator, with whom his mum has urgent, whispered conversations each day?
Winner of the Chairman's Choice Award (and highly commended in the Popular Medicine category) at the British Medical Association's annual book prize, judge Professor Sheila Hollins said The Little Girl in the Radiator was her favourite book in the whole competition, adding, 'This is a funny but heartbreaking account of a mother's decline into the world of an Alzheimer's sufferer. I laughed and I cried.'
"Deeply loving yet wryly comic... The most moving portrait of this cruel disease you'll ever read" - The Daily Mail
'Incredibly well written ... very entertaining and amusing', Dr Natalie Smith, Pulse Magazine.
