The Language of Remembering
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Epoque Press
Publishing:25th Feb '25
£10.99
This title is due to be published on 25th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Returning from Brazil with his wife and daughter, Oisin is looking to rebuild a life in Ireland and reconnect with his mother, Brigid, who has early onset Alzheimer's. As her condition deteriorates, she starts to speak Irish, the language of her youth, and reflect on her childhood dreams and aspirations.
Mother and son embark on a journey of personal discovery and as past traumas are exposed, they begin to understand what has shaped them and who they really are.
'The Language of Remembering' asks how we connect to the people we love and how we move on from the past to find meaning in the present.
'In lyrical and humane prose, Patrick Holloway's writing excavates, for me, an essential truth: that we exist both within and beyond language. His characters -- deeply felt and empathetically drawn -- linger long in the mind of the reader; his images are crystalline.'
Sean Hewitt
'A new, exciting voice from Ireland. A storyteller whose gifts dazzle with their truth. Patrick Holloway is quite unlike any other writer, completely compelling in his tale of the dense and unspoken relationships that define some families. At once daring, he employs humour and insight in work which is warm, humane and dares to imagine. He questions the abiding mystery of language, its limitations and revelations, what it can and cannot convey. There is no agenda here, only the creatively inspired, exciting and provocative truth as he imagines it.'
Mary O'Donnell
ISBN: 9781739188191
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
242 pages