An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love

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Profile Books, Jun 3, 2021 - Social Science - 193 pages

'Inspiring' GUARDIAN
'Heartbreaking' INDEPENDENT
'I loved it' ADAM KAY
'Beautiful' MATT HAIG
'Luminous' NICCI GERRARD
'Essential reading' MADELEINE BUNTING
'A celebration' CHRISTIE WATSON

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A Best Book for Summer in The Times, Guardian and The i
Independent Book of the Month

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Caring is an issue that affects us all - as bestselling novelist Kate Mosse knows all too well.

Kate has cared in turn for her father and mother, and for Granny Rosie, her 90-year-old mother-in-law. Along the way she has experienced the joys, challenges and frustrations shared by an invisible army of carers.

At the heart of this care lie everyday acts of love, and the realisation that, sooner or later, most of us will come to rely on an extra pair of hands.

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'Lifts the spirits without pulling punches' IAN RANKIN
'Irresistible' RACHEL JOYCE
'Questions how and why we fetishise independence when the reality of human experience is always interdependence' GUARDIAN, BOOK OF THE DAY
'Heartfelt, funny and at times heartbreaking. 10/10' INDEPENDENT
'Utterly beautiful' FRANCESCA SEGAL

 

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Contents

Christmas
Three Generations
The House on the Corner
Something Altogether Different
Womens Work?
An Indian Summer
The Blue Light
The Uncertain Hour
The Shortest
In the Bleak Midwinter
Rearranging the Chairs
Made in Dagenham
La Promenade des Anglais
The Colour of Patience
A Knitted Woollen Duck Pond
An Extra Pair of Hands

The Undiscovered Country
After the Funeral
North of Eighty
Food Glorious Food
Four Days in Belfast
The First Lockdown
Wish Me Luck
Rosies Ninetieth Birthday
Old Year New Year

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About the author (2021)

Kate Mosse is an international bestselling novelist, playwright and nonfiction author with sales of more than eight million copies in 38 languages. Renowned for bringing unheard and under-heard histories to life, she is a champion of women's creativity. Kate is the Founder Director of the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Founder of the global 'Woman In History' campaign and a Visiting Professor of Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester. Kate lives in West Sussex with her husband and mother-in-law. @katemosse

Bibliographic information

TitleAn Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love
AuthorKate Mosse
PublisherProfile Books, 2021
ISBN1782835512, 9781782835516
Length193 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Biography & Autobiography / Medical (incl. Patients)
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Family & Relationships / General
Health & Fitness / General
Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues
History / Social History
Medical / Long-Term Care
Medical / Nursing / General
Medical / Nursing / Home & Community Care
Medical / Nursing / Maternity, Perinatal, Women's Health
Medical / Nursing / Nurse & Patient
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
  
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