The Fragments Of My Father. A Memoir Of Madness, Love And Being A Carer

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: 4th Estate
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2020
Edition: First Edition

Description: 400 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: There were holes in Sam Millss life when she was growing up - times when her dad was just absent, for reasons she didnt understand. As she grew older, she began to make up stories about the periods when he wasnt around: that hed been abducted, spirited away and held captive by a mysterious tribe who lived at the bottom of the garden. The truth - that he suffers from a rare form of paranoid schizophrenia, and was hospitalised intermittently - slowly came into focus, and that focus became pin-sharp in 2012, when Sams mother died and Sam was left as his primary carer. In this powerful, poignant memoir Sam triangulates her own experience with the stories of two other carers, one she admires and one, on some days, she fears she might become: Leonard Woolf, husband to Virginia and F Scott Fitzgerald, husband to Zelda, and a man whose personality made him ill-equipped - in a great many ways - to be a carer for his troubled wife. A mesmerising blend of literary biography and memoir The Fragments of My Father is a compelling and moving account of what it means to be a carer.

ISBN: 9780008300586