What to read after FAREWELL TO MY COMPANION?

"Farewell To My Companion" recounts the author's recent years spent adjusting to and caring for her husband, once a journalist and successful political, now a patient suffering from Alzheimer''s disease. It delves into the complex feelings of someone in her position as partner and carer, treating the subject with remarkable sensitivity.

It's also the personal journey of a wife's care for her husband, a victim of dementia. Apart from a brief introduction to their past as a couple, it concentrates on the final years of his illness, on the terrible memory loss which affected their relationship. It reflects upon his medical care and hospital treatment, but most of all, into the doubts and intricacies of his wife's emotions as she confronts his end and the knowledge of her solitary future. It is a book written with the aim of sharing with others who might be passing through a similar experience, in the hope that it might encourage them and offer them a friendly hand.