Song for Rosaleen

Pip Desmond (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2018
Massey University Press (Verlag)
978-0-9951001-2-1 (ISBN)

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Losing and finding a mother in dementia.

A beautifully crafted memoir of a family coping with their mother's dementia, Song for Rosaleen is both a celebration of Rosaleen Desmond's life and an unflinching account of the practical and ethical dilemmas that faced her six children. Told with love, insight, humour and compassion, it raises important questions about who we become when our memories fail, how our rapidly ageing population can best be cared for, and what this means for us all.

Pip Desmond is a Wellington writer, editor and oral historian. She is the author of the award-winning Trust: A True Story of Women and Gangs and The War That Never Ended: New Zealand Veterans Remember Korea. Pip has an MA in creative writing and runs communications company 2Write with her husband Pat. They have three children and four beautiful grandchildren.

CONTENTS
1. Speaking out 7
2. Tamarillo chutney 16
3. Babies 27
4. Portfolios 36
5. Wonderland 45
6. Circle the wagons 53
7. Different mothers 64
8. Silver weddings 76
9. Driving test 84
10. Therapeutic fibbing 92
11. Role models 100
12. Wise old woman 109
13. Ladylike behaviour 120
14. Hair cuts 133
15. Party over 138
16. Boarding school blues 147
17. A new friend 158
18. Home visit 169
19. A prayer 177
20. Acts of kindness 184
21. Alive inside 190
22. The star 199
23. Hole in the hallway 206
24. Toothache 214
25. Alone is lonely 223
26. Fortisip 232
27. Going home 239
Epilogue 247
Bibliography 252
Acknowledgements 253
About the author 255

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2018
Zusatzinfo	30 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	293 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie
ISBN-10	0-9951001-2-8 / 0995100128
ISBN-13	978-0-9951001-2-1 / 9780995100121
Zustand	Neuware