Author: Matthew Thomas

I think I picked this book up at the thrift store on Texada. On a recent trip to the studio I finished the book I was reading and needed a new one; I pulled this one from the cupboard.

The novel tells the story of a family, Ed, Eileen and their son Connell, but the story is told mostly from Eileen’s point of view. At the beginning of the novel we hear about her life with her Irish family and the plans she has for her life; when she meets and marries Ed it doesn’t all turn out the way she had planned.

Ed becomes a victim of early onset Alzheimers. I’ve read a lot of novels with Alzheimers as a theme but I don’t think I’ve ever read one any better than this; the descriptions of what each of the characters are going through seems very realistic.

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