Mother: A Memoir
ISBN-13: 9781912408573
Author(s): Nicholas Royle
Subjects: BM, DNC
Publisher: Myriad Editions
Publisher Imprint: Myriad Editions
Publication Date: 14-05-2020
Format: Paperback / softback
Availability: In stock
£8.99
About the book
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.