Mother: A Memoir by Nicholas Royle
Before the devastating '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, Tennyson to Foucault - swears at her fox-hunting neighbours, and instils in the young Nick a love of reading and of wildlife that will form his character and his career.In this touching, funny and beautifully written portrait of family life, mother-son relationships and bereavement, Nicholas Royle 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.At once poetic and philosophical, this extraordinary memoir is also a powerful reflection on the climate crisis and 'mother nature', on literature and life writing, on human and non-human animals, and on the links between the maternal and memory itself.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781912408573 |
| ISBN 10 | 1912408570 |
| Title | Mother: A Memoir |
| Author | Nicholas Royle |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Myriad Editions |
| Year published | 2020-05-14 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |