Take Me Home is the story of a son s struggle for recognition from a father who is being transformed mentally and physically by a ruinous disease, and a writer s search to discover a father s strange and largely secret past.
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*'Very moving and beautifully written' - John Bayley *'A brave and unsentimental book' - Diana Athill
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Jonathan Taylor is a lecturer in English at Loughborough University. He was born in 1973. This is his first book, from which an extract was published in Granta magazine in autumn 2006 (Granta 95, Loved Ones).
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'Help' - the word my mother heard more than any other. Read the first page
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
When I finished this novel, I put it down and thought: 'perfect'. Indeed, the story is a sad one; but also humerous, educational and a thoroughly enjoyable read. Jonathan Taylor has achieved a careful balance in his plot, and although he really goes into the nitty gritty of such a cruel and common disease, the book is far from depressing. He develops the plot and characters so as to entwine his reader with them, bringing them into the story - which makes this book a really satisfying read. Despite describing his fathers medical decline, by doing so the author resurrects the memories of what a loving and proud man his father was, and how awful degenerative diseases such as Alzeimers and Parkinsons are.
Unpretentious, amusing and emotional - for anyone that enjoyed John Diamond's 'C: Because Cowards get Cancer too' and Blake Morrisson's 'And When Did You last See your Father?' - this is a must read.
Unpretentious, amusing and emotional - for anyone that enjoyed John Diamond's 'C: Because Cowards get Cancer too' and Blake Morrisson's 'And When Did You last See your Father?' - this is a must read.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Hardcover
This book is beautifully written by a loving son. It is a moving account of the authors life and relationship with his father who started suffering from Parkinsons's disease whilst the author was still a child. Taylor combines amusing anecdotes with his memories in such a smooth and accessible style that sometimes one has to remind oneself that this is a true story. There is no chance of the cardiganisation of JT!!
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Jonathan Taylor is able to look back on the years spent caring for his ill father with a very witty and humourous retrospective. He tries to find some answers to the questions his father is unable to answer about his past, his family. But it's the way the author is able to paint vivid pictures about holidays with his family and life at home as Parkinson's takes hold of his father enabling you to feel the frustrations and bewildement suffered that really takes hold of the reader in a way that few authors can, and it is for that I have given this the full five stars.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Unusual but a good read
Makes me want to read his novels. Full of honesty and imagination. A way in for anyone resistant to exploring the issues he raised
Published 2 months ago by Pat Batchelor
5.0 out of 5 stars
a real and moving memoir- a "must read".
This is a moving but unsentimental account of a carer's experiences.Poignant yet humourous at times, this is a memoir which will evoke powerful feelings in readers who have ever... Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2008 by Mrs. H. Lingwood
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not really any help to anyone with a relative suffering from...
I bought this book because my 80-year old mother has been suffering from Parkinsons for the past 7 years and I hoped that the book might offer some help, either practical or... Read more
Published on 2 Aug 2007 by Maureen Robson
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