Matchstick Man

An unbearably honest, unsentimental and exceptionally well written story of a mind's disintegration and its effects on the partner and family of the man they are losing to confusion, distress and amnesia.

Julia Kelly is an Irish novelist; her partner was a successful artist whose increasingly disturbing behaviour is described quietly, in a series of dreadful epiphanies. A heartbreaking account of a destructive and distressing disease that affects 850,000 people in the UK alone, with numbers set to rise to over 1 million by 2025.