The Little Girl in the Radiator is an hilarious, heart-breaking and ultimately uplifting story of love, loss and family.
It is also and award winning book about one man's struggle to care for his mother after she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Rose Slevin was a highly active, very intelligent and fiercely independent woman who ran her own business and ruled her son, Martin, and his father, Bernard, with a rod of iron.
But when Bernard dies after fifty years of marriage, her life crumbles, and Rose becomes listless and forgetful.
Eventually, she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, and Martin puts his own life on hold to care for her.
Together, they embark on a journey through the various stages of the condition; the destination is never in doubt, but along the way there are many lighter moments, as she shaves the dog's bottom, holds sing-songs with an imaginary Irish band, watches TV with a giant frozen gooses, and insists on pinning all of Martin's socks to the wall.
And all the time, the question nags away at Martin: who is the little girl in the radiator, with whom his mum has urgent, whispered conversations each day?

WINNER of the Chairman's Choice Award at the British Medical Association Book Awards

HIGHLY COMMENDED in the Popular Medicine category at the British Medical Association Book Awards

Selected for the 'Reading Well Books on Prescription' scheme. Healthcare professionals chose the book to be included on a recommended reading list for the carers of people with dementia. It enabled doctors to write a 'prescription' for the book to be collected from their local library. It became the most borrowed non-fiction book in many UK libraries.