NICHOLAS BINGE

Remembrance days: the bestselling novelist discusses his new thriller

Jonathan Wright

DEMENTIA IS THE CRUELLEST OF conditions. Not just for those enduring growing confusion and cognitive decline, but for their nearest and dearest too. This was something Nicholas Binge witnessed as his grandmother, May, became unmoored from the present because of Alzheimer’s. For May’s husband and partner of 70 years, Joe, this was a terrible experience. “I watched the emotional toll that caring for her took on my grandfather,” Binge says. “It wasn’t just that she didn’t recognise him, but that increasingly he no longer recognised her. He would say things like, ‘This isn’t the woman that I married any more,’ but he’d still have this obvious duty and compulsion. He couldn’t possibly hand the care of her over to anybody else, even though it was kind of breaking him physically.”…

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