Forget Club

Title: Forget Club

Author: Tosca Niterink

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789057596667

Condition: Good

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Description:
Tosca Niterink's demented mother lives with eight other elderly ladies in small-scale housing behind a combination lock, for their own safety. With a keen eye for the absurd and hilarious detail, Niterink describes the ladies' distinct characters and the complications that arise from them. “Do I actually still have a husband?” my mother asks. `The last one died a few years ago. `Oh, dear. Did I mind? `Not really, you had kicked him out of your house a while before. `Why? `You turned on the light at night to look for your slippers because you had to go to the toilet. He got angry and you shouted that you wanted to look for your slippers in your own house at night and then you threw him out. `Oh, yuck. `He had another one the next day. `Oh, thank goodness! Tosca Niterink's mother with dementia lives with eight other elderly ladies in small-scale housing behind a combination lock, for their own safety. It's like Absolutely Fabulous in a retirement home: the ladies try to outdo each other by bragging about their offspring, making themselves pretty or by conquering the best spot in the living room. With a keen eye for the absurd and hilarious, Niterink describes the ladies' distinct characters and the complications that arise from them in detail. This leads to extremely comical but also very moving scenes. She spares herself in no way and talks about the feeling of guilt when she has not visited her mother for a few weeks. Who then asks in surprise: `How did you find me here? The Forgetting Club is based on the popular column 'Klein Keukenhof' on the back page of NRC Handelsblad and contains many new and edited scenes. Tosca Niterink (1960) is an actress (among others Theo and Thea, with Arjan Ederveen), documentary maker and writer. Previously she published Klimmen naar kruishoogte about the 1100 kilometer long walking journey through Spain, which she made together with Anita Janssen.