An Extra Pair of Hands
Kate Mosse
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Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Hardback. ISBN: 9781788162616. Publisher: Wellcome Collection (Profile Books). Overview:. An Extra Pair of Hands: A Story of Caring, Ageing and Everyday Acts of Love is bestselling novelist Kate Mosse's candid, deeply personal memoir about becoming a family carer in middle age. Moving between her father's Parkinson's, her mother's widowhood, and her role supporting her 90-year-old mother-in-law, Mosse writes with warmth, humour, and unflinching honesty. Speaking to the millions of unseen carers across the UK, this hardback is a moving tribute to the small, everyday acts of love that hold families together, and a celebration of ageing with dignity.. About the Book:. Kate Mosse is best known for her bestselling historical fiction, but here she turns her storytelling gift inward, to her own family. An Extra Pair of Hands charts her journey from helping her mother nurse her father through Parkinson's disease, through supporting her mother in widowhood, to becoming an everyday carer for Granny Rosie, her husband's 90-year-old mother. Rather than a manual or a misery memoir, this is a book about the "gentle heroism" of ordinary carers: the shared meals, the…