The Gingerbread House [electronic resource] : Gripping, Heartbreaking, Funny, Surprising
Beaufoy, Kate2017
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Away from the city, with no distractions, the Gingerbread House seems like the perfect place to start work on a novel. That’s what former advertising copywriter Tess thinks when she goes there to live with Eleanor, her aged mother-in-law. But Eleanor is suffering from dementia, and caring for her proves tougher than Tess could ever have imagined: feeling increasingly isolated, her only comfort is wine o’clock and weekend visits from her husband. Meanwhile her teenage daughter Katia is helpless to intercede; in the end she can only watch as things fall apart and a tragedy even closer to home surfaces.The Gingerbread House is a deeply moving novel: a compassionate and occasionally wickedly funny tale of a family’s agonising struggle with dementia.What readers are saying about The Gingerbread House:'Moving, honest, and darkly comic, The Gingerbread House confronts an issue that has been taboo for too long.MARIAN KEYES'Gripping, heartbreaking, funny, surprising - The Gingerbread House is all of these, and a lot more.'RODDY DOYLE'Beautiful, heartbreaking, original, honest, unique.CECELIA AHERN
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[Place of publication not identified] : Black & White Publishing, 2017
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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9781785301148
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English
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1060780
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