Daily deal and I, BBC Radio 4, loads of papers and Richard and Judy
Very highly recommend it. It's about a nurse who got early onset dementia, she writes it and about how it's affected and affecting her. How she works against it to keep herself.
It was a real insight. It was a proper heartbreak. Take food, she used to love cooking and make cuisines from all over the world. But now flavour means nothing to her, texture affects her and it's become pure fuel. She's no interest in it and has to barricade herself in the kitchen until she's eaten. She's not interested, hunger has no meaning and she forgets why she's in the kitchen and wanders off. That's hugely simplified, there is so much more to it. Sound was another, sound traffic outside her house went from something she didn't notice to overwhelming to the point she had to move house to a tiny village.
She works around problems like not remembering where things are, she puts photographs on the cupboards so she tell oh bla bla bla is in there. Then she has to put photographs on doors so she knows she can get out of the room.
Somebody I Used to Know: A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick 2019 by Wendy Mitchell (99p)
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THE RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES
SELECTED AS A SUMMER READ BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES AND THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
'Revelatory' Guardian
'A miracle' Telegraph
'Remarkable' Daily Mail
'A landmark book' Financial Times
How do you build a life when all that you know is changing?
How do you conceive of love when you can no longer recognise those who mean the most to you?
A phenomenal memoir – the first of its kind – Somebody I Used to Know is both a heart-rending tribute to the woman Wendy Mitchell once was, and a brave affirmation of the woman dementia has seen her become.