An evocation of a grown daughter's attachment to her mother over the course of the mother's Alzheimer's and decline. Ernaux's }The Years{ was proposed by Deborah Levy as 'one of the best books you'll ever read'
Leverbaar
A powerful meditation on ageing and familial love, I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie Ernaux's attempts to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, and then, when that proves futile, to bear witness to the older woman's gradual decline and her own experience as a daughter losing a beloved parent.