Name: Cathy Rentzenbrink - The Last Act of Love (2nd Hand Paperback)
Brand: Campsie Books
SKU: B002023
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Cathy Rentzenbrink - The Last Act of Love (2nd Hand Paperback)

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Synopsis

In the summer of 1990 - two weeks before his GCSE results, which turned out to be the best in his school - Cathy Rentzenbrink's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out, suffering serious head injuries. He was left in a permanent vegetative state.

Over the following years, Cathy and her parents took care of Matty - they built an extension onto the village pub where they lived and worked; they talked to him, fed him, bathed him, loved him. But there came a point at which it seemed the best thing they could do for Matty - and for themselves - was let him go.

With unflinching honesty and raw emotional power, Cathy describes the unimaginable pain of losing her brother and the decision that changed her family's lives forever. As she delves into the past and reclaims memories that have lain buried for many years, Cathy reconnects with the bright, funny, adoring brother she lost and is finally able to see the end of his life as it really was - a last act of love.

Powerful, intimate and intensely moving, this is a personal journey with universal resonance - a story of unconditional love, of grief, survival and the strength of the ties that bind. It's a story that will speak to anyone who has lost someone close to them, to anyone who has fiercely loved a sibling, and to anyone who has ever wondered whether prolonging a loved one's life might be more heartbreaking than saying goodbye.

Details

Format : Standard 2nd Hand Hardback
Condition : Very Good (Almost As New)
Category : Non-Fiction - Autobiography & Biography
Published : 2016 (Picador)
ISBN : 9781447286394
SKU : B002023
PPC : LL250gm
RRP : £7.99
Quantity Available : 1 only.

External Reviews

" . . . a beautiful, scathingly painful, ultimately uplifting and utterly moving tale . . ." - Goodreads Review.

The Author

Cathy Rentzenbrink has lived in Cornwall, Yorkshire and London and recently returned to Cornwall, where she lives with her family and works as a writer and journalist.