Keeper: Living with Nancy. A journey into Alzheimer's

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Keeper: Living with Nancy. A journey into Alzheimer's

Author(s): Andrea Gillies (Author)

  • Publisher: Short Books Ltd
  • Publication Date: 7 May 2009
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 256 pages
  • ISBN-10: 1906021651
  • ISBN-13: 9781906021658

Book Description

When her mother-in-law, Nancy, was diagnosed with Alzheimers, Andrea Gillies made the decision to care for her full time. ‘Keeper’ is the result of this – a frank, moving and utterly gripping account of Alzheimers and its impact on one family.

Editorial Reviews

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Thoughtful, informative and true… a very good, very necessary book.
Richard Eyre, Patron of the Alzheimer’s Research Trust

A wonderful book – honest, upsetting, tender, sometimes angry, often funny – which takes us on a journey into dementia and explores what it means to be human. — Deborah Moggach

This is one of the most moving and important books that I have read on Alzheimer’s. — John Bayley

Thoughtful, informative and true… a very good, very necessary book. — John Bayley — John Bayley

Thoughtful, informative and true… a very good, very necessary book. — Sir Richard Eyre, Patron of the Alzheimer’s Research Organization and director of “Iris”
Sir Richard Eyre, Patron of the Alzheimer’s Research Organization and director of “Iris”

Review

This is one of the most moving and important books that I have read on Alzheimer’s.

Review

Thoughtful, informative and true… a very good, very necessary book.

Review

Thoughtful, informative and true… a very good, very necessary book. — John Bayley

Book Description

Thoughtful, informative and true… a very good, very necessary book. — Sir Richard Eyre, Patron of the Alzheimer’s Research Organization and director of “Iris”

From the Publisher

Andrea Gillie’s Keeper has just won the inaugural £25,000 Wellcome Trust Prize. The prize is open to outstanding works of fiction and non-fiction on the theme of health and medicine. Jo Brand, comedienne and former psychiatric nurse chaired the judging panel and made the announcement at an awards ceremony at the Wellcome Collection, London.

About the Author

Andrea Gillies lives in St Andrews with her family and is now writing a novel. Keeper won the inaugural Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2009 – an award set up to honour science writing in popular literature.

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