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I'm Still Alive

I'm Still Alive 
Mary lives in a nursing home. People come and go; they talk to her – or at her. Some stir memories, but these are of the distant past and rarely help Mary comprehend her relationship with her visitors in the present. For Mary lives in the immediate present and every day is a new beginning, slate wiped clean, nothing remembered. But her existence is far from barren – Mary’s story is achingly tender and achingly funny. The narrator is Mary herself: we hear only what she hears and share only her thoughts and memories – and what rich and healing memories they are. Her first husband tends the roses in the garden of her mind and his image is projected onto the garden which she sees through the nursing home windows. But she hears the conversations of her visiting family and friends, and her observations of them, though locked in her mind, are sharp and humorous. Nigel Macbeth’s novel is tender without being sentimental and amusing without being trivial. Mary cannot express her enjoyment of life by speech or facial movement, but love and laughter are within her and about her – and she is still alive.

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Author Nigel Macbeth
ISBN 9781846242311
Cover Type Hardback
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Publication Date 26/6/2008
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Price: £16.99

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