Incontinent on the Continent

by Jane Christmas

Publisher:

Lion Books

, 2016

Overview

To honour a promise to her dying father, Jane takes her ageing incontinent mother to Italy. What could possibly go wrong? Jane Christmas had always had a difficult relationship with her mother, but thought that a mother and daughter trip to Italy could be the start of a whole new friendship. In this hilarious but poignant memoir, she discovers that it will not be that easy. Describing her mother as a cross between ’Queen Victoria and Hyacinth Bucket’, Jane struggles to build bridges to a woman she has always found a puzzle, while also trying to cope with her mother’s failing health and physical needs.

Contents

Contents
1. Extending the Olive Branch 9
2. En Route to Italy 25
3. Albe robe llo, Martina Franca, Locorotondo 45
4. Albe robe llo 67
5. San Mango d’Aquino, Reggio di Calabria, Taormina 83
6. Sicily: Racalmuto, Agrigento 109
7. Mess ina, Catanzaro Marina 127
8. Albe robe llo, Matera 139
9. Castel del Monte, Potenza 161
10. Amalfi Coast, Sorrento, Capri 175
11. Pompe ii, Mount Ves uvius 197
12. Viterbo 211
13. Foligno, Montef alco, Santa Maria degli Angeli 229
14. Civita Castellana, Siena, San Gimignano 243
15. Pisa, Florence 259
16. Rome 281
17. Venice 295
18. Making the Effo rt 307
Afterword 313
Acknowledgme nts 319

Product Details

• Title : Incontinent on the Continent: My Mother, Her Walker, and Our Grand Tour of Italy
• Author: Christmas, Jane
• Publisher: Lion Books
• Publication Date: 2016
• ISBN: 9780745968940