This one reminded me very much of Jonathon Frazens The Corrections, with its intimate detailing of a time and a place and a family you feel quite connected to by the end of the novel. It seems to take an astonishingly long time for Ed’s Alzheimer’s disease to be diagnosed; his wife Eileen is quietly heroic in her determination to continue the daily struggle with a man whose mind is eroding, slowly and agonisingly. Not a cheery read but not depressing either. One that stays with you.
