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The Gingerbread House

By: Kate Beaufoy
Narrated by: Niamh Cusack
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When Tess agrees to move into her aged mother-in-law's idyllic country cottage, she sees it as the perfect opportunity to escape the distractions of the city and start work on a novel. However, life in the Gingerbread House is no fairy tale. Tess is utterly unprepared for the reality of caring for Eleanor, who suffers from dementia.

Feeling increasingly isolated, she struggles to cope as Eleanor fluctuates between violent mood swings, childlike dependency and moments of heart-wrenching lucidity. Meanwhile, Tess' teenage daughter, Katia, is helpless to intercede. In the end she can only watch as things fall apart and a tragedy even closer to home surfaces....

©2017 Kate Beaufoy (P)2017 Oakhill Publishing Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction
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This is a poignant book, well-written and upfront. It was confrontational in the way it portrayed the downward spiral of Eleanor as she battles with dementia, and Tess and Katia's battles were portrayed well as well. The ending came as a surprise to me, and made me very sad. The narrator of this book read it beautifully and captured the imagery strongly.

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