- Publisher: Head of Zeus
- Year: 2019
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 197x127mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.2kg
- ISBN: 9781788540155
- Product code: 539331
Matchstick Man
The Story of a Life Lost to Alzheimers
Julia Kelly New Paperback
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Novelist Julia Kelly brings an understated but poetic touch to this memoir about how she gradually lost her partner, the artist Charlie Whisker, to Alzheimer’s. From the first signs of confusion and forgetfulness, through diagnosis to deterioration, she describes with eloquence and unflinching honesty the effects of the disease on them and their young daughter.
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Julia Kelly met a charismatic and successful artist, Charlie Whisker, while she was working on her first novel. He was twenty years older than her. Their relationship was passionate and extraordinary; each of them inspired the other. Their friends were writers, artists and rock stars; they lived a glamorous life of exhibitions, parties and concerts. They became parents to a daughter they adored.
But Charlie suddenly changed, becoming hopelessly forgetful, angry and confused. This is an unbearably honest, unsentimental and heartbreaking description of a brilliant man's mental disintegration and its effects on his family. Charlie's disturbing behaviour is described in a series of terrible, understated revelations.
An unforgettable telling of a story that will be familiar to many thousands of people in the UK and Ireland.
But Charlie suddenly changed, becoming hopelessly forgetful, angry and confused. This is an unbearably honest, unsentimental and heartbreaking description of a brilliant man's mental disintegration and its effects on his family. Charlie's disturbing behaviour is described in a series of terrible, understated revelations.
An unforgettable telling of a story that will be familiar to many thousands of people in the UK and Ireland.
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Novelist Julia Kelly brings an understated but poetic touch to this memoir about how she gradually lost her partner, the artist Charlie Whisker, to Alzheimer’s. From the first signs of confusion and forgetfulness, through diagnosis to deterioration, she describes with eloquence and unflinching honesty the effects of the disease on them and their young daughter.
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