Where Memories Go
- Author Sally Magnusson
- Narrator Sally Magnusson
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Run Time 10 hours and 29 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Alzheimer’s and dementia, Coping with illness and specific health conditions, Memoirs.
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What to expect
Sally Magnusson
Regarded as one of the finest journalists of her generation, Mamie Baird Magnusson's whole life was a celebration of words - words that she fought to retain in the grip of a disease which is fast becoming the scourge of the 21st century. Married to writer and broadcaster Magnus Magnusson, they had five children of whom Sally is the eldest. As well as chronicling the anguish, the frustrations and the unexpected laughs and joys that she and her sisters experienced while accompanying their beloved mother on the long dementia road for eight years until her death in 2012, Sally Magnusson seeks understanding from a range of experts and asks penetrating questions about how we treat older people, how we can face one of the greatest social, medical, economic and moral challenges of our times, and what it means to be human.
An extraordinary and deeply personal memoir, a manifesto and a call to arms, in one searingly beautiful narrative.
Find out more about the book and dementia at Facebook.com/WhereMemoriesGo
(P)2014 John Murray Press
Critics Review
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It is an emotional book, beautifully written, well observed, and important for all of us who at some stage or another be caught up in a similar tragedy… It is hard to read it without weeping
West Highland Press - Books of the Year 2014 -
A life-changing book… shot through on every page with insights about love, the strength of family life and the enduring human spirit… Where Memories Go is a triumph over the darkness of dementia
Sunday Post -
Scottish BBC journalist Magnusson writes movingly and beautifully about her love for her mother, Mamie Magnusson, a journalist who struggled as Alzheimer’s robbed her of her memory and her gift with words… Much of her beautifully written memoir is an appeal to readers to treat people with dementia with dignity rather than focus only on treating them with drugs… This memoir should go a long way toward easing any shame that families feel about loved ones with Alzheimer’s
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