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Incontinent on the Continent
My Mother, Her Walker and our Grand Tour of Italy
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Pub Date
Oct 21 2016
| Archive Date
Nov 04 2016
Description
To honour a promise to her dying father, Jane takes her ageing incontinent mother to Italy. What could possibly go wrong? Jane Christmas had always had a difficult relationship with her mother, but thought that a mother and daughter trip to Italy could be the start of a whole new friendship. In this hilarious but poignant memoir, she discovers that it will not be that easy. Describing her mother as a cross between 'Queen Victoria and Hyacinth Bucket', Jane struggles to build bridges to a woman she has always found a puzzle, while also trying to cope with her mother's failing health and physical needs.
To honour a promise to her dying father, Jane takes her ageing incontinent mother to Italy. What could possibly go wrong? Jane Christmas had always had a difficult relationship with her mother, but...
Description
To honour a promise to her dying father, Jane takes her ageing incontinent mother to Italy. What could possibly go wrong? Jane Christmas had always had a difficult relationship with her mother, but thought that a mother and daughter trip to Italy could be the start of a whole new friendship. In this hilarious but poignant memoir, she discovers that it will not be that easy. Describing her mother as a cross between 'Queen Victoria and Hyacinth Bucket', Jane struggles to build bridges to a woman she has always found a puzzle, while also trying to cope with her mother's failing health and physical needs.
A Note From the Publisher
Jane Christmas is an acclaimed Canadian writer of travel memoirs, including And Then There Were Nuns, her account of the time she spent testing out her vocation following a marriage proposal. And What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Mid-Life misadventure on Spain's Camino de Santiago de Compostela. She now lives in Devon in the UK.
Praise for And Then There Were Nuns:
"Her exuberant humour makes this a refreshingly irreverent glimpse of monastic life."
Daily Mail
"Her style is equall parts Nora Ephron and Bill Byrson."
Quill & Quire
Jane Christmas is an acclaimed Canadian writer of travel memoirs, including And Then There Were Nuns, her account of the time she spent testing out her vocation following a marriage proposal. And...
A Note From the Publisher
Jane Christmas is an acclaimed Canadian writer of travel memoirs, including And Then There Were Nuns, her account of the time she spent testing out her vocation following a marriage proposal. And What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Mid-Life misadventure on Spain's Camino de Santiago de Compostela. She now lives in Devon in the UK.
Praise for And Then There Were Nuns:
"Her exuberant humour makes this a refreshingly irreverent glimpse of monastic life."
Daily Mail
"Her style is equall parts Nora Ephron and Bill Byrson."
Quill & Quire
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9780745968933 |
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Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9780745968933 |
| PRICE |
$11.95 (USD)
|
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