Hole in the Heart: Bringing Up Beth - Softcover

Beaumont, Henny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908434929 ISBN 13: 9781908434920

Verlag: Myriad Editions, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

When the registrar told Henny and her husband that their daughter might have Down’s Syndrome, she thought that her life was over. How would she be able to look after this baby, who might die, and manage her other two children at the same time? How could this weak little baby, who needed so much more from Henny than her other two children, provoke such feelings of hatred and resentment? And how would she learn to love her? If she can’t trust her own reactions to Beth, how could she expect other people to overcome their prejudices and ignorance about her condition? Hole in the Heart is a moving, funny, ironic and refreshingly honest look at living with a child who has special needs. Henny’s remarkable journey speaks not only to parents who have had a similar experience and the medical and care professionals who try to help them, but to every one of us who feels anxiety about our children – wondering whether they are achieving enough, whether we do enough for them, and whether we love them enough. As the PE teacher asks: ‘Who’s really got the special needs here?’

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Henny Beaumont is a London-based artist and portrait painter. She worked on an audio visual App for the New River and was published in Journal of writing in creative practice 2013.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Myriad Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1908434929
• ISBN 13: 9781908434920
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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