The Fall of the House of Robson - Couverture rigide

Tomlins, Keith

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1846245117 ISBN 13 : 9781846245114

Editeur : Book Guild Publishing Ltd, 2011

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

When the world you've known for nearly a century suddenly becomes a strange and frightening place that you can no longer make head or tail of, it's not just you who ends up a victim...

Having been in control all of her life, as a matron, as an air-raid warden, and as the single mother of two children after her first husband was lost at sea and her second turned out to be a no-good scoundrel, Amy Robson finds her world crumbling in her 96th year as she succumbs to the ravaging effects of dementia.

Can she keep enough of a grip on her increasingly fragile state of mind to maintain at least a degree of independence? And can her professional carers put up with her tetchy ways and assist her in staying on in her own home, against the wishes of her two children, Derek and Daphne?

As for Derek and Daphne, none too young themselves, they find themselves caught up in their mother s ever-more paranoid and confused world, and in the end, it is not just Amy who is felled when the disease takes its final stranglehold

Biographie de l'auteur

Keith Tomlins was born in Portsmouth in 1945 and grew up and was educated there until attending the University of Reading, where he gained a degree in French and German. Up until 1989, for most of his career he was involved in teaching modern languages, including four years in Nigeria. Although now virtually retired, he worked on a freelance basis in the fields of teaching, examining, examiner training and book writing, and also worked part time for Staffordshire County Council as an adult foreign language teacher. He is married to his Mauritian wife Chantale, has two daughters, and currently lives in Wolverhapmton in the West Midlands.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book Guild Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1846245117
• ISBN 13: 9781846245114
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 308
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible