Huntington’s Disease – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

Stranger on the Shore

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:54 +0000

Chosen for September 2009 People’s Book Prize Collection for Non-Fiction Tracing the life of the author’s father, this passionate, vivid memoir follows him through his childhood in the west of England, his successful 25-year career in the Indian Army prior to the country’s independence in 1947, and his final years in Devonshire, where he raised a family while the symptoms of Huntington’s disease…

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This Life of Grace

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:50 +0000

Finalist in 2011-12 People’s Book Prize for Non-Fiction This Life of Grace is a biography and a history. It tells the story of Grace Jarrold, the youngest of eight children, who lived for almost ninety years in the village of Plympton in Devon. It also tells the story of the village over the last century, beginning with the Great War of 1914-1918, school life at that time as revealed in original…

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The Devil’s Dance

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:48 +0000

The Devil’s Dance transcends categories. It is an exciting, original story, full of menace and very moving. The story is told in turn by two teenagers, Jake and Samuel. It begins with a dream, like a musical overture, which contains the themes to be developed in the rest of the work and describes events that took place two or three hundred years earlier. Gradually the reader understands the horror…

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Love is His Meaning

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:47 +0000

This book tells the story of two people, born in poverty, who found each other and married in a world at war. They brought up and educated a family, but while their two sons were still very young, the father, a strong man who had served for twenty-five years in the army in India, developed the symptoms of Huntington’s disease. This cast a deep shadow over the family as his condition deteriorated…

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