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Friday book review – The Memory Book

Published by Emma Lee-Potter in on Friday 31st January 2014

No one could accuse Rowan Coleman of shying away from difficult subjects in her novels. Her last book, Dearest Rose, tackled domestic abuse, and her new one, The Memory Book, features a mother in her early 40s who develops early onset Alzheimer’s. Dementia is usually associated with the elderly but in the UK there are more than 17,000 people with dementia under the age of 65 – a third of ...keep reading