Four Umbrellas

June Hutton, Tony Wanless

ISBN 10: 1459747798 / ISBN 13: 9781459747791

Published by Dundurn Group Ltd, CA, 2020

About this Item

A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from - memory.At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future. June is forty-eight, a writer and teacher, and over the following decade watches as her husband changes - in interests, goals, and behaviour - until Tony has a fall, ending the life they had known. A diagnosis is seven years away, yet the signs of Alzheimer's are all around. A suitcase Tony packs for a trip is jammed with four umbrellas, a visual symbol of cognitive looping. But how far back do these signs go? The couple starts probing the past and finding answers. This is not an old person's disease.

Seller Inventory # LU-9781459747791

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Four Umbrellas
• Publisher: Dundurn Group Ltd, CA
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1459747798
• ISBN 13: 9781459747791
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 312 grams

About this title

Synopsis

A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from ― memory.

At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future. June is forty-eight, a writer and teacher, and over the following decade watches as her husband changes ― in interests, goals, and behaviour ― until Tony has a fall, ending the life they had known.

A diagnosis is seven years away, yet the signs of Alzheimer’s are all around. A suitcase Tony packs for a trip is jammed with four umbrellas, a visual symbol of cognitive looping. But how far back do these signs go? The couple starts probing the past and finding answers. This is not an old person’s disease.

About the Authors

June Hutton has written two novels and facilitates writing workshops at a treatment centre for addiction. She lives in Vancouver.

Tony Wanless worked for a variety of newspapers across Canada, including the Financial Post and the Province, and is taking part in a study on Alzheimer's at UBC Hospital. He lives in Vancouver.