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A brilliant artist’s mind begins to collapse. This is a story you will not forget, written by his partner with unsparing love and honesty.
Matchstick Man is the story of a mind’s disintegration and its effects on the family of the man they are losing to confusion, distress and amnesia. From the first disturbing signs, to the fall into bewildered helplessness, this beautiful, moving book traces the pitiless reality of Alzheimer’s disease as few other pieces of writing have ever done.
Julia Kelly is an Irish novelist. With her partner, the artist Charlie Whisker, she lived a life that seemed glamorous and carefree – a world in which their friends were rock stars and other artists and writers. Charlie helped her to become a writer, and together they had a daughter. Matchstick Man describes heartbreakingly and unsentimentally their loss of innocence, and Julia’s discovery that even love can’t defend them against this cruel illness.