Unbecoming
Downham, Jenny2016
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Spanning three generations of women in one family, Jenny sensitively addresses dementia, single motherhood, and teenage angst. Katie only meets her Grandmother Mary for the first time when she is 17 and by that point Mary is almost completely lost to dementia. And as her only living relatives, Katie's small broken family are forced to care for her. Katie can see something in her, a spark that she's missing in her own life but her mother Caroline, Mary's own daughter, hates her. But why? As time goes on snippets of Mary's life are revealed to Katie during her brief moments of lucidity and a long kept family secret is at last revealed. The difficulties of dealing with dementia are expertly placed alongside teenage angst and single motherhood.
Main title:
Unbecoming / Jenny Downham.
Author:
Downham, Jenny, author
Imprint:
Oxford : David Fickling Books, 2016.
Collation:
436 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2015.
ISBN:
9781910989029 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
1531292
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