Incontinent on the Continent
Author:   Jane Christmas
Publisher:   SPCK Publishing
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780745968933


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   21 October 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Incontinent on the Continent


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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 failing health and physical needs.

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Author:   Jane Christmas
Publisher:   SPCK Publishing
Imprint:   Lion Books
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780745968933


ISBN 10:   0745968937
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   21 October 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

Contents 1. Extending the Olive Branch 9 2. En Route to Italy 25 3. Albe robe llo, Martina Franca, Locorotondo 45 4. Albe robe llo 67 5. San Mango d'Aquino, Reggio di Calabria, Taormina 83 6. Sicily: Racalmuto, Agrigento 109 7. Mess ina, Catanzaro Marina 127 8. Albe robe llo, Matera 139 9. Castel del Monte, Potenza 161 10. Amalfi Coast, Sorrento, Capri 175 11. Pompe ii, Mount Ves uvius 197 12. Viterbo 211 13. Foligno, Montef alco, Santa Maria degli Angeli 229 14. Civita Castellana, Siena, San Gimignano 243 15. Pisa, Florence 259 16. Rome 281 17. Venice 295 18. Making the Effo rt 307 Afterword 313 Acknowledgme nts 319

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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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