PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Rose has dementia, and while she loses words and memories, she doesn't understand how she has mislaid her friend. She isn't in her room at their nursing home. Rose knows she saw her on the ground outside her window looking up at the sky, so why is there a strange man in the room instead of her friend? As she roams about the home, alternating between crafty and confused, small pieces of truth are being revealed - can she put them altogether to work out what is happening? And can she make sense of aspects of her own past that her recall tries and fails to catch? With a cast of well-drawn characters seen through the filter of Rose's idiosyncratic mosaic of memory, this is an insight into the workings of a deteriorating brain, which cannot disguise the vital woman Rose once was and still is... Lindy
Bruce Nash was awarded a 2022 Varuna Residential Fellowship for an earlier draft of this manuscript; indeed, he has enjoyed three such fellowships for his work. His previous books?The Long River of Cat Fisher?(2020) and?An Island in the Lake?(2019) were published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. He has been shortlisted for several writing awards and his short fiction has appeared in?Meanjin,?Australian Short Stories?and anthologies.?Bruce is a retired teacher and now lives on the southern New South Wales coast.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Rose has dementia, and while she loses words and memories, she doesn't understand how she has mislaid her friend. She isn't in her room at their nursing home. Rose knows she saw her on the ground outside her window looking up at the sky, so why is there a strange man in the room instead of her friend? As she roams about the home, alternating between crafty and confused, small pieces of truth are being revealed - can she put them altogether to work out what is happening? And can she make sense of aspects of her own past that her recall tries and fails to catch? With a cast of well-drawn characters seen through the filter of Rose's idiosyncratic mosaic of memory, this is an insight into the workings of a deteriorating brain, which cannot disguise the vital woman Rose once was and still is... Lindy
'A deeply moving, completely charming novel I will be staring out windows thinking on for a long time.' Tim Rogers 'From a tumble of language, tricks and puns come clues to a murder - and devastating truths about love. All the Words We Know is both unique and daring.' Jock Serong
