From the Bookshelf of Warwick Public Library…

[close] This was a really good story, about a woman who has dementia. The story is told from her point of view and reminds me a bit of the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, which tells the story from the point of view of a person with Asperger's Syndrome. This book uses a different condition, but a similar literary device. It's quite effective because the narrator seems clear-headed and other times quite confused about her home, her neighborhood and her friend Elizabeth. Maud, our protagonist, is desperate for her daughter to believe her suspicions, that something terrible has happened to her friend Elizabeth. Her anxiety, and the reader's, grows throughout the story, and Maud's inability to remember details really brings home the terrible confusion that dementia generates. Maud and the reader are unsure at times , what is real, and what is not. This is a gripping psychological mystery, as well as a primer on the way people with dementia see the world.