CODA is an intimate, deeply personal and emotional narrative that lays bare the disruptive world of an unforgiving and relentless illness. Dementia. Balancing darkness with humour, and playing strength, vulnerability, frustration, despair and sorrow against each other, Thomas learns to let go, and in the process, reclaims her life.

     Her story is a shared experience, and as a reader, it takes me to personal spaces, triggering a parallel-track journey outside of the book, feeding into larger narratives almost universally embedded in our cores. In its cruel humour, the protective cover of memory and the searing clarity of detail, you realise this is who we are, that it is okay, and that anguish is, really, a walking companion.

     Easy, elegant, quirky and ironic, Thomas opens up a rhythm, finding the pulse as it were; call it closure, call it mystery,  or call it the strength to move on. ​