Four Umbrellas: A Couple's Journey Into Young-Onset Alzheimer's

By Tony Wanless and June Hutton

Book Overview

A writing couple searches for answers when Alzheimer's causes one of them to lose the place where stories come from -- memory.

At the age of fifty-three, Tony walks away from a life of journalism and into an unknown future. June is forty-eight, a writer and teacher, and over the following decade watches as her husband changes -- in interests, goals, and behaviour -- until Tony has a fall, ending the life they had known.

A diagnosis is seven years away, yet the signs of Alzheimer's are all around. A suitcase Tony packs for a trip is jammed with four umbrellas, a visual symbol of cognitive looping. But how far back do these signs go? The couple starts probing the past and finding answers. This is not an old person's disease.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1459747798
• ISBN13: 9781459747791
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"