The Longest Farewell Saadi Simawe memory and autobiography

memory and autobiography

Christopher Meredith is the author of the award-winning Shifts

Ranging from critiquing the function of the nation-state and rejecting secularist visions of identity

This is not a book about John Lucas (although he has a walk-on role in several of these poems)

The Longest Farewell Saadi Simawe memory and autobiographyWhen Nulas husband James, an Irish documentary filmmaker, becomes forgetful they put it down to the stress of his work. But his behavior becomes more erratic and inexplicable, and he is eventually diagnosed as suffering from Picks Disease, an early onset and aggressive form of dementia. Suddenly their lives change from comfortable middle class creatives through inexplicable behaviour, the shock of diagnosis, coping with the ongoing illness, not coping