The songaminute man : how music brought my father home again
McDermott, Simon2018
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Place reservation for The songaminute man : how music brought my father home againThe nostalgic memoir of a young man, eldest of 14, growing up in 40s Wolverhampton. The heartbreaking true account of his son struggling to come to terms with his father's dementia. A tribute to the unbreakable bond between father and son. When Simon McDermott first noticed his dad Ted's sudden flares of temper and fits of forgetfulness, he couldn't have guessed what lay ahead. Then came the devastating, inevitable diagnosis. As Ted retreated into his own world, Simon and his mum Linda desperately tried to reach him until at last: an idea. Turning the ignition in his mum's little runaround, Simon hit play on Ted's favourite song 'Quando Quando Quando'. And like that, they were just two mates driving around Blackburn, singing at the top of their lungs. Simon filmed their adventure, uploaded the video to YouTube and woke up to messages, tweets and his phone ringing off the hook.
Main title:
The songaminute man : how music brought my father home again / Simon McDermott.
Author:
McDermott, Simon, author
Imprint:
London : HQ, 2018.
Collation:
254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9780008232627 (hbk)9780008232634 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
362.1'968311'0092362.196
Language:
English
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BRN:
59131
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