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Keeper wins!
Monday, 19th October 2009
KEEPER is a brilliantly illuminating examination of Alzheimer's disease and a moving, humorous and candid account of the difficulties faced by both sufferer and carer during the several years in which Andrea and her family cared for her mother-in-law. The book tackles profound questions about the self, the soul and how memory informs who we are.
"This is one of the most moving and important books that I have read on Alzheimer's." John Bayley.
The prize celebrates the best of medicine in literature by awarding £25,000 each year for the finest fiction or non-fiction book centred around medicine.
The judges this year, chaired by comedian, author and ex-psychiatric nurse Jo Brand, include poet and medical historian Richard Bartnett; science journalist, film, television and radio critic Quentin Cooper; former Welsh National Poet, Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts Gwyneth Lewis; and author, poet and medical professor Raymond Tallis.
The winner will be announced on 4th November, at the Wellcome Collection in London.
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