Nicholas Royle explores the parent-child bond, Elisabeth Thomas serves up a gothic horror and Jared Diamond unpicks nations in crisis
gestures to his own ageing, his writing about the natural world and Mother Earth and “the strange timetables of realisation and loss”. That questing candour characterises a book that probes whose wordplay almost reaches beyond language, probing the very meaning of the parent-child bond as it chronicles the dementia-driven decline of Mrs Royle, ex-nurse, avid reader and canny cruciverbalist.
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