This is a story of the irreversible damage dementia causes and how sometimes clarity seems to return.
Emily returns to New Zealand to care for her father, a retired GP, not wanting him to go in to residential care as he has dementia. She is going against the advice of her siblings who think Emily is wrong to encourage her father to stay in his own home.
Emily didn’t have a particularly close relationship with her father and is happy to have the opportunity to build one with him now while she still has the chance.
In the meantime, who is Leah who seems to have vanished some years before? Her mother is a neighbour to Emily’s father and has cared for him for some time. Emily was the last person to see Leah as she was working in a store where Leah bought a snack before she started out on a solo expedition. She appeared fit, well and strong but it is now twenty five years since Leah was reported missing.
This is a sad but beautiful book, one which you will remember for a long time.
Emily returns to New Zealand to care for her father, a retired GP, not wanting him to go in to residential care as he has dementia. She is going against the advice of her siblings who think Emily is wrong to encourage her father to stay in his own home.
Emily didn’t have a particularly close relationship with her father and is happy to have the opportunity to build one with him now while she still has the chance.
In the meantime, who is Leah who seems to have vanished some years before? Her mother is a neighbour to Emily’s father and has cared for him for some time. Emily was the last person to see Leah as she was working in a store where Leah bought a snack before she started out on a solo expedition. She appeared fit, well and strong but it is now twenty five years since Leah was reported missing.
This is a sad but beautiful book, one which you will remember for a long time.