Dennis O'Donnell's The Triumph of Time: a novel of loss and recovery PDF

By Dennis O'Donnell

ISBN-10: 1520659016

ISBN-13: 9781520659015

this is often the tale of an impressive lady. Rose Galbraith is a retired schoolteacher, remembered as such through the narrator, John Chalmers, who's Senior Nursing Officer of Sauchtie apartment, a personal care domestic in West Lothian. He sees her at the streets of Bathgate and recollects being taught through her for a 12 months on the neighborhood academy. He describes her specified character and mentions how a lot his brother, a extra scholarly scholar than he, sought after omit Galbraith, who taught him English each year of his academy profession. John wonders why this sort of ambitious girl by no means married. whilst she develops Alzheimer's affliction, she is admitted to Sauchtie residence and John Chalmers's care. steadily, he discovers simply how notable a lady Rose Galbraith is - and has regularly been.

This is a singular of loss and restoration; of affection and grief; of an enormous mind succumbing to the ravages of dementia - yet, so much of all, the tale of a different and ambitious woman.

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