The shifts between lucidity and disorientation are skilfully written illustrating the terrible toll the disease takes. Her occasional memory lapses slowly become more frequent, at times Alice is heartbreakingly aware of her deterioration, at others she is blissfully ignorant. As the story unfolds, Alice desperately tries to hold on to her sense of self. What ensures that Still Alice is so affecting is that it is told from Alice’s perspective. Diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease, Alice’s professional and personal life begins to unravel as her mind deteriorates. When Alice begins to experience memory lapses she feels they are readily explained by the combined effects of her busy, often stressful, lifestyle and the approach of menopause, until one morning when she becomes disorientated during her daily run. She is gratified by her professional success, content in her marriage and while she has some doubts about the ambitions of her youngest daughter, Alice is proud of her three children. Status: Read from November 27 to 29, 2014 - I own a copy Ī poignant and moving novel, Still Alice is the story of a Alice Howland, a fifty year old wife, mother and renowned linguistics professor at Harvard University.

Published: Simon & Schuster AU: December 2014 (Reprint)

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