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Incontinent on the Continent: My Mother, Her Walker, and Our Grand Tour of Italy
Jane Christmas
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Description for Incontinent on the Continent: My Mother, Her Walker, and Our Grand Tour of Italy
Paperback. Surely touring Italy is the best way of sorting out your relationship with your mother? Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1KBC; 3JJ; 3JM; BM; VFVX; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 25. Weight in Grams: 344.
To honour a promise to her dying father, Jane takes her ageing incontinent mother to Italy. What could possibly go wrong? Jane Christmas had always had a difficult relationship with her mother, but thought that a mother and daughter trip to Italy could be the start of a whole new friendship. In this hilarious but poignant memoir, she discovers that it will not be that easy. Describing her mother as a cross between 'Queen Victoria and Hyacinth Bucket', Jane struggles to build bridges to a woman she has always found a puzzle, while also trying to cope with her mother's ... Read more
To honour a promise to her dying father, Jane takes her ageing incontinent mother to Italy. What could possibly go wrong? Jane Christmas had always had a difficult relationship with her mother, but thought that a mother and daughter trip to Italy could be the start of a whole new friendship. In this hilarious but poignant memoir, she discovers that it will not be that easy. Describing her mother as a cross between 'Queen Victoria and Hyacinth Bucket', Jane struggles to build bridges to a woman she has always found a puzzle, while also trying to cope with her mother's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Lion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
343g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745968933
SKU
V9780745968933
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About Jane Christmas
Jane Christmas is an acclaimed Canadian writer of travel memoirs: Incontinent on the Continent (2009 - aging mother and daughter travel to Italy), and What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim (2007 - equal parts Nora Ephron and Bill Bryson ; relentlessly smarter, funnier and holier than thou ). She now lives in Devon in the UK.
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