PLEASE REMEMBER ME AS I WAS

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I was told by my doctor that I was suffering from stress; but I knew otherwise.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is my story of what it feels like to have a rare form of Alzheimer's. In order to recount it I have used voice recognition software. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As little by little I am deprived of my faculties I am rendered completely illiterate. It is a cruel trick to play on a novelist. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I hope that this book will resonate with all who might read it.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Reviews of Valerie Blumenthal's previous books.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Valerie Blumenthal writes beautifully about the mother/daughter relationship hidden secrets and Alzheimer's in her latest novel set in Italy. </em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Tina Betts literary agent on </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Lupo Stick</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Valerie Blumenthal explores her protagonist's dilemma with sympathy and tact producing a very readable novel which makes some thoughtful points about the nature of maternal love.</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Times</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> on </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Saturday's Child</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> wise novel ... Shrewdly observed and lit by comic compassion. </em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She Magazine</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> on </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Kempton's Journey</em></p>