Some people walk into Moira’s bookshop with a question. The people in this book walk in carrying someone else.
Calm for Carers gathers six stories for nurses, family carers, parents and everyone who looks after other people. One of them, Matteo’s night-shift story, first appeared here. The other five are new, and you can read them in the book or, if you are a Purring Club member, on the site: Rosa, whose husband has started to forget her name; Ioana, a carer from Romania far from her own children; Luca, nineteen, studying law at two in the morning; Paolo, father of a little boy who loves trains; and Giorgio, who no longer knows what to do at two o’clock in the afternoon.
A taste: Rosa and the Crossword
Every Wednesday at half past ten, Rosa Benedetti came into La Pagina che Fa le Fusa and bought the same thing: the regional newspaper, folded twice, and nothing else. She had done it for eleven years. She paid with exact change, said “Buongiorno, Moira” and “Grazie, Moira” in exactly the same tone, and was out of the door again in under two minutes.
So when, on a Wednesday in late November, she came in, paid for the newspaper, and then stood very still in the middle of the shop holding it, Moira Hopes put down the parcel she was wrapping.
“Franco always did the crossword,” Rosa said. “Forty-six years. Every Wednesday. He would sit at the kitchen table and I would read him the clues, because his eyes were bad, and he would answer them before I had finished the sentence. He was so annoying about it.” She looked down at the paper. “This morning I read him the first clue and he looked at me and asked who I was.”
- 6 stories, each with Moira’s reflection and a few practical ideas
- 6 herbal tea recipes
- Both editions in one purchase: English and Italiano (Tisane d’amore)
- EPUB and PDF
Price: 3,99 euro.
If you look after someone, you are allowed to be tired. The kettle is on.
Speranza
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