One typical morning, Sarah Nickerson, a woman in her mid-thirties, is late for work, racing in her car after dropping her kids off at school and daycare, she tries to phone in to a meeting she should already be at when she takes her eye off the road for one second too long. And in that blink of an [...]

Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University.
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on th[...]

"I m always hearing about how my brain doesn t work right But it doesn t feel broken to me. "Olivia Donatelli s dream of a normal life shattered when her son, Anthony, was diagnosed with autism at age three. He didn t speak. He hated to be touched. He almost never made eye contact. And just as Olivi[...]

From the bestselling author of Still Alice comes a heartfelt novel about friendship and a mother coping with the loss of her autistic son[...]

An incredibly moving and insightful story of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's Disease that does for Alzheimer's what Mark Haddon did for autism.[...]

From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Still Alice" Lisa Genova comes a powerful and transcendent new novel about a family struggling with the impact of Huntington's disease.
Joe O'Brien is a forty-four-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massac[...]

In Lisa Genova's extraordinary "New York Times" bestselling novel, an accomplished professor diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease learns that her worth is comprised of more than her ability to remember. Now a major motion picture from Sony Pictures Classics starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate [...]

An incredibly moving and insightful story of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's Disease that does for Alzheimer's what Mark Haddon did for autism.[...]

One typical morning, Sarah Nickerson, a woman in her mid-thirties, is late for work, racing in her car after dropping her kids off at school and daycare. She tries to phone in to a meeting she should already be at when she takes her eye off the road for a second too long. In that blink of an eye, al[...]

This companion to Still Alice includes: Summary of the book Character Analysis A Discussion on Themes And much more![...]

Alice er femti år og jobber som professor ved Harvard universitet. Hun er en anerkjent forsker, lykkelig gift og har tre vellykkede barn. Men hun har begynt å glemme ting på en foruroligende måte. Dette er en roman om hvordan det er å leve med Alzheimer - om hvordan det er å sakte, men uunngå[...]

Alice er professor ved Harvard og får som 50-årig konstateret Alzheimers sygdom. Vi følger, også fra Alice's synsvinkel, omverdenens reaktion og hendes egen angst og tiltagende mentale opløsning. Alice's sygdom får dog også familien til at samles i kærlighed om hende[...]