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Notes From the lost property department
Penguin
ISBN: 9781415207444 Format: Paperback Recommended Price: R220.00 Published: August 2015
About the book:
Iris Langley is forced to take charge when her mother, Grace, has a
stroke. This is no easy task: Iris suffers from the lingering effects of
a near-fatal fall as a child. The accident turned her mind into a place
where a dragon lives: one that roars in her ears and fills her head
with smoke.
As her mother retreats into dementia, Iris realises that Grace is
hiding something – a secret about that fateful day in the mountains that
could threaten everything she believes about herself and her family.
But with her own memory fragmented, and Grace’s mind in tatters, how can
she find the truth?
Set against the sombre beauty of the Drakensberg mountains, Bridget
Pitt’s powerful new novel takes us into the labyrinthine world of brain
injury, and reveals how the strands of guilt, secrecy and devotion that
bind mother to daughter may devastate or redeem them.
‘The struggle to forget, or not; courage in small things – Bridget
Pitt’s new novel has found a voice for wounded memory. It’s a searching
voice, evoking from jumbled discards something that perhaps we’ve all
lost … but which might still be found.’ – Jeremy Cronin
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