An Extra Pair of Hands

Resumen del libro

As our population ages, more and more of us find ourselves caring for parents and loved ones some 8.8 million people in the UK. An invisible army of carers holding families together.

Here, Kate Mosse tells her personal story of finding herself as a carer in middle age: first, helping her mother look after her beloved father through Parkinson's, then supporting her mother in widowhood, and finally as 'an extra pair of hands' for her 90-year-old mother-in-law. This is a story about the gentle heroism of our carers, about small everyday acts of tenderness, and finding joy in times of crisis. It's about juggling priorities, mind-numbing repetition, about guilt and powerlessness, about grief, and the solace of nature when we're exhausted or at a loss.

It is also about celebrating older people, about learning to live differently and think differently about ageing. But most of all, it's a story about love.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;b Kate Mossex{0026}lt;/b es una galardonada novelista, dramaturga, ensayista y escritora de no ficción, autora de nueve novelas y colecciones de cuentos, incluida la multimillonaria trilogía de Languedoc, The Burning Chambers Series, el número uno en ventas de ficción gótica x{0026}lt;i The Winter Ghostsx{0026}lt;/i y x{0026}lt;i The Taxidermist's Daughterx{0026}lt;/i y las aclamadas memorias x{0026}lt;i An Extra Pair of Handsx{0026}lt;/i .x{0026}lt;br / Sus libros han sido traducidos a treinta y siete idiomas y publicados en más de cuarenta países. Directora fundadora del Premio de la Mujer de Ficción, es la fundadora de la campaña mundial WomanInHistory. Miembro de la Royal Society of Literature, Kate es profesora invitada de Ficción contemporánea y escritura creativa en la Universidad de Chichester.x{0026}lt;br / katemossex{0026}lt;/p