Farewell To My Companion recounts the trials and tribulations faced by the author, when caring for her husband, a patient with Alzheimer's Disease. It highlights the doubts and the dedication involved and it is written with love and that sense of obligation inherent in such a task.
This is the personal journey of a wife's care for her husband, once a journalist and successful politician, now a victim of Alzheimer's Disease. 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 delves, too, into 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 hopes that it might encourage them and offer them a friendly hand.
Diana Hutton lives in Madrid, Spain and has spent most of her career as a professional translator but has devoted the last few years to writing full-time. Her latest novel, "Farewell To My Companion", explores the trials and tribulations she faced in looking after her husband, previously a Europarliamentarian and journalist, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, as he slowly slips away. Her previous novel, "Sisterly Love" delves into the intricacies of the sister relationship in old age, treating the subject with remarkable humour and sensitivity. It is also available as an audiobook. Diana has written two other novels, "A Grave above Ground" and "Don't Call Me Lebohang" which can be purchased on Amazon. "A Grave above Ground" is also available as an audiobook at most retail audiobook outlets. Although born in Southampton, in the United Kingdom at the end of the Second World War, Diana spent the first ten years of her life in London, then moved with her family to Sydney, Australia. She was educated there and dabbled in acting and contemporary ballet in Sydney on leaving school, then worked at the Australian Broadcasting Commission. As a young woman, she returned to London, but shortly afterwards moved to live in Paris where she met her Spanish husband-to-be whilst working in the Australian Permanent Delegation to UNESCO. She married in Madrid and has two grown up children. She has lived there on and off since 1970 and has found life in Spain to be a deeply enriching experience.
