PLEASE REMEMBER ME AS I WAS: A Memoir of Living with PCA Alzheimer's

by Valerie Blumenthal

Overview

I was told by my doctor that I was suffering from stress, but I knew otherwise. This is my story of what it feels like to have a rare form of Alzheimer's. In order to recount it, I have used voice recognition software. As little by little I am deprived of my faculties, I am rendered completely illiterate. It is a cruel trick to play on a novelist. I hope that this book will resonate with all who might read it.

 

Reviews of Valerie Blumenthal's previous books.

 

"Valerie Blumenthal writes beautifully about the mother/daughter relationship, hidden secrets and Alzheimer's in her latest novel set in Italy."

Tina Betts, literary agent on The Lupo Stick

 

"Valerie Blumenthal explores her protagonist's dilemma with sympathy and tact, producing a very readable novel which makes some thoughtful points about the nature of maternal love."

The Times on Saturday's Child

 

"Wise novel ... Shrewdly observed and lit by comic compassion."

She Magazine on Kempton's Journey

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781919611440
Publisher:	Ellis Editions
Publication date:	06/21/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	235
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Valerie Blumenthal is the author of nine critically acclaimed novels, several of which have been widely translated. Her novel Saturday's Child sold in the region of a million copies worldwide. She has written features for the Times, Telegraph, Mail on Sunday and the Oxford Times, published several short stories and for four years taught creative writing in a high security men's prison. Valerie was a third of the way through writing The Lupo Stick, when she was diagnosed with PCA (Posterior Cortical Atrophy), a rare form of Alzheimer's, which strikes at a younger age. Writing The Lupo Stick had been a labour of love, but also one that had been fraught with frustration, as her condition altered over the six years it took to write.Valerie's situation now is such that she needs help with the simplest, everyday things, however, she retains her sense of humour and positive outlook.