Mother : a memoir
Royle, Nicholas, 1957-2020
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Before the exquisitely painful 'loss of her marbles', Mrs Royle, a nurse by profession, is a marvellously no-nonsense character, an autodidact who reads widely and voraciously from Trollope to Woolf, White to Winterson - swears at her fox-hunting neighbours, and instils in the young Nick a love of reading and wildlife that will form his character and his career. He captures the spirit of post-war parenting as well as of his mother whose dementia and death were triggered by the tragedy of losing her other son - Royle's younger brother - to cancer in his twenties.
Main title:
Mother : a memoir / Nicholas Royle.
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Imprint:
Hove : Myriad Editions, 2020.Hove : Myriad Editions, 2020.
Collation:
224 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781912408573 (pbk)
Dewey class:
306.8743
Language:
English
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BRN:
2334168