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Before the devastating '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, Tennyson to Foucault - swears at her fox-hunting neighbours, and instils in the young Nick a love of reading and of wildlife that will form his character and his career.In this touching, funny and beautifully written portrait of family life, mother-son relationships and bereavement, Nicholas Royle 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.At once poetic and philosophical, this extraordinary memoir is also a powerful reflection on the climate crisis and 'mother nature', on literature and life writing, on human and non-human animals, and on the links between the maternal and memory itself.
| ISBN-13 | 9781912408573 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1912408570 |
| Weight | 0.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.10 x 0.80 x 7.70 In |
| List Price | $11.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 224 pages |
| Publisher | Myriad Editions |
| Published On | 2020-09-17 |
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