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Matchstick Man

By (author) Julia Kelly
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom
Imprint: Head of Zeus
Published: 16th May 2019
Dimensions: w 129mm h 198mm d 20mm
Weight: 202g
ISBN-10: 1788540158
ISBN-13: 9781788540155
Barcode No: 9781788540155
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Synopsis
Julia Kelly met a charismatic and successful artist, Charlie Whisker, while she was working on her first novel. He was twenty years older than her. Their relationship was passionate and extraordinary; each of them inspired the other. Their friends were writers, artists and rock stars; they lived a glamorous life of exhibitions, parties and concerts. They became parents to a daughter they adored. But Charlie suddenly changed, becoming hopelessly forgetful, angry and confused. This is an unbearably honest, unsentimental and heartbreaking description of a brilliant man's mental disintegration and its effects on his family. Charlie's disturbing behaviour is described in a series of terrible, understated revelations. An unforgettable telling of a story that will be familiar to many thousands of people in the UK and Ireland.

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[A] candid, affecting and beautifully written account of living with Alzheimer's * The Bookseller * Julia Kelly finds beauty in words... A sad book about the loss of a mind and the conflicting layers of a relationship. We can only sigh in relief that such a talented writer was created in the process' -- Ruth Fitzmaurice, Irish Times Heartbreaking... Yet somehow, at the same time, it is uplifting and life-affirming, and at times even funny... [Kelly] writes beautifully and with great humanity' * Irish Independent * Kelly's talent is such that she is able to wring so much beauty, pathos and even humour from all this trauma... Matchstick Man challenges us to consider what a life is and, perhaps, to appreciate it all the more' * Dublin Sunday Independent * Traces the bitter reality of Alzheimer's disease as few other pieces of writing have ever done * Nenagh Guardian * This moving book traces the reality of Alzheimer's disease as few other pieces of writing have done * The Clare Champion * Julia Kelly writes with confidence and with meticulous attention to the grind of daily life... She is impressively honest about her failings and his' * Sunday Times * I admired Matchstick Man, Julia Kelly's unsparing account of coping with her husband's alzheimer's -- Madeleine Keane in the Literary Diary, Sunday Independent Ragged and terrifying, but it also achieves a rare grace, as Kelly writes her way from resentment to compassion. It is a tribute to her craft that as the book ends we can only wonder at Charlie's fortitude, and hers * TLS. * An unforgettable telling of a story that will be familiar to many thousands of people in the UK and Ireland * Spalding Guardian * A tragic story, but [Kelly's] honest telling gives it an uplifting quality that leaves you cheerful rather than depressed at its end * Irish Examiner * A searingly honest and moving tribute * County Down Spectator *