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Television journalist and presenter Fiona Phillips gives a frank and open account of her complex relationship with her parents, both of whom have succumbed to dementia.
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Fiona Phillips is one of our best-loved television presenters. Well-known for being warm, chatty and down to earth, she attended her local comprehensive in Southampton before studying English in Birmingham. For over twelve years she presented GMTV, during which time she interviewed some of the most famous and influential people on the planet, from film stars to royalty, politicians to local heroes. But in August 2008 Fiona announced that she was to quit the job she loved, revealing that her father, Phil, had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's just a year after her mother had died of the same disease and that she had decided to devote more time to him and to her family.
Before I Forget is a wonderfully honest account of growing up in the 1960s and 70s within a complex family. During her childhood her father could sometimes be distant and demanding which both saddened her and drove her to succeed, her mother always the devoted wife and the steady heart of the family. When Fiona lands the job at GMTV she revels in how proud they are of her achievement. When her mother and then her father succumb to Alzheimer's we share in Fiona's sadness as she movingly describes watching them fade away, one moment interviewing George Clooney the next taking a call from Pembrokeshire Social Services to say that her mother had wandered away from her care home.
Before I Forget is an extraordinary book which will resonate with Fiona's millions of fans and the millions of people who day-by-day are going through, or have gone through, the same experiences.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
An excellent read couldnt put it down. It is very well written and gives a frank account of her life so far and also tells the very sad story of living with her mothers illness and then finding out that her father now has the same illness after her mother has died.
Gives you something to think about and makes you think about your own life and that maybe things arent so bad.
Gives you something to think about and makes you think about your own life and that maybe things arent so bad.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I ordered this book as I am going through a similar experience. I found this book very moving and it taught me that my feelings towards this illness are the same as many others are experiencing. This book had me in tears, but glad that I read it as I have learned from it. I would definately recommend it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
My mum has dementia and is now down to 5 stone, she also went blind 10 years ago, to read this story is so heart rendering, but it tells the true feeling of someone who has been through it twice, it doesn;t get easier, you just wish you could do something to let them go in dignity, and you also want to remember them as they were and not what they have become.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
depressing read
what a depressing read--the only thing it does is to highlight how much pressure this terrible illness can place on the indicidual and the ripple effect on the family members--its... Read more
Published 7 days ago by shazzer
Really moving and brilliant
Im not really much of a reader which really says so much about how good this book is.
I couldnt put it down. It is really sad in parts but funny as well. Read more
I couldnt put it down. It is really sad in parts but funny as well. Read more
Published 23 days ago by Holly
GREAT BOOK GREAT SERVICE
GREAT BOOK ABOUT HER FATHERS ILLNESS ,WHO WAS BATTLING WITH ALZIMERS AND AFFECTING HER LIFE GREAT SERVICE WOULD USE THIS SELLER AGAIN
Published 1 month ago by S. Hawley
""You must read this book""" BRILLIANT!!
What a brilliant read...... Like Fiona I was also born in the ealy 1960`s and can remember so much of what she did growing up, it really was a blast from the... Read more
Published 2 months ago by eperose
Before I forget
I loved Fiona as a presenter on GMTV and knew the saddness behind that smile of hers.
I thought for the first half of the book while telling of her younger years, Fiona tended... Read more
I thought for the first half of the book while telling of her younger years, Fiona tended... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Dolly
"Before I forget"
Fiona Phillips has always spoken from the heart and she now also writes from the heart. This was a real heart rending true account of the impact Dementia has on the person and the... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Pepsie
MOVING ACCOUNT
This book is very moving, as Fiona unfolds, what has been a very difficult period in her life, and that of her family,
Reveals, how we all can think, "famous" folk, have it... Read more
Reveals, how we all can think, "famous" folk, have it... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Beresford John S. Job
A pleasant read
Firstly before I start reviewing the book I'll quickly warn anyone reading that this is not a book specifically about Alzheimer's. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Paul Stevens
GREAT READ
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Well done Fiona. It brought back so many memories of when my Mom died and the feelings I felt afterwards. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Denise Turkeltob
insightfull and helpful!
A well written account of living with alzheimers and helpful to know that others are going through the same troubles as yourself. Read more
Published 7 months ago by sullyere
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