The man who lost his memory- the moving true story of an English musician crippled by total amnesia, written by his wife.
Deborah Wearing campaigned for specialist services for brain-injured people and helped found a national charity, the Amnesia Association (merged in 1991 with Headway). She now works as a communications officer in the NHS.
This is a harrowing, haunting and heartening book - a loss-story
which is also a love story. It takes us deep inside the question of
what it means to be human.
*Andrew Motion*
Sometimes terrifying, sometimes very funny, and always deeply
moving, Deborah Wearing's beautifully written testament to a love
that survives all the ravages of her husband's amnesia is a book to
seize the heart.
*Lindsay Clarke, author of the Whitbread winning The Chymical
Wedding*
A remarkable book: absorbing, moving and humbling.
*Fay Weldon*
Loving, terrifying and often extremely funny, an astonishing voyage
into the very heart of what makes us human.
*Deborah Moggach*
I had the privilege of filming a documentary about Deborah and
Clive and like the rest of the crew I was immediately struck with
the extraordinary patience and affection with which Deborah dealt
with this appalling ordeal. In Forever Today she takes us further
than ever into this remarkable experience.
*Jonathan Miller*
'This is a harrowing story of a human tragedy. Harrowing yet
uplifting, for it portrays the indefatigable human spirit of two
people grappling with an unprecedented and shattering dilemma. A
sensitive and deeply moving account, a heart rending love story -
but unlike any other ever told'
*Jack Ashley (Rt. Hon. Lord Ashley of Stoke)*
'A compelling, poignant and exquisitely written account of a young
woman reaching into the dark empty spaces of her husband's damaged
brain and finding love within the limitations of his brilliant but
fractured mind. It is the most dramatic description of "the abyss
of non-being" since Oliver Sacks' Awakenings'
*Marjorie Wallace, founder of SANE*
'Overwhelmingly moving...Her harrowing book is a description of
utterly unselfish love. It also raises scary questions about what
exactly makes us human.'
*Daily Mail*
'An extraordinary story of constancy in love, and Deborah Wearing
tells in brilliantly.'
*Evening Standard*
'Delivers a message of hope about human identity. It is similar to
the moral drawn by John Bayley after his wife, Irish Murdoch, was
struck down by Alzheimer's and it is this: 'Clive was living
evidence that you could lost almost everything you ever knew about
yourself and still be yourself.'
*Mail on Sunday*
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