Matchstick Man

Product Number: D6071
Released: 01 Feb, 2019
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781528841894
Narrator(s): Aoife McMahon
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

Julia Kelly met charismatic and successful artist, Charlie Whisker, while she was working on her first novel. He was twenty years older than her. Their relationship was passionate and extraordinary; each of them inspired the other. Their friends were writers, artists and rock stars; they lived a glamorous life of exhibitions, parties and concerts. They became parents to a daughter they adored. But Charlie suddenly changed, becoming hopelessly forgetful, angry and confused. This is an unbearably honest, unsentimental and heartbreaking description of a brilliant man's mental disintegration and its effects on his family. Charlie's disturbing behaviour is described in a series of terrible, understated revelations. An unforgettable telling of a story that will be familiar to many thousands of people in the UK and Ireland.

Author(s): Julia Kelly
Original Publish Date: 01 Feb, 2019

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MP3 CD
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Author(s): Julia Kelly
Narrator(s): Aoife McMahon
Product Number MPCD3691
Released: 01 Feb, 2019
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781528841900
CD
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Author(s): Julia Kelly
Narrator(s): Aoife McMahon
Product Number CX4753
Released: 01 Feb, 2019
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781528841887

Professional reviews

"An unforgettable account of living with Alzheimer's disease by the partner of a brilliant artist whose mind is collapsing. “Heartbreaking ... Yet somehow, at the same time, it is uplifting and life-affirming, and at times even funny ... [Kelly] writes beautifully and with great humanity.” IRISH INDEPENDENT"

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