The Seamstress by Geraldine Wooler

I read this book in a weekend. It was very moving and easy to read although I found the first few chapters confusing. The narrator, Jo, slips back and forth through different time frames , so you get some idea of the early life of Jo’s mother,Willa ( the seamstress of the title) . They seem to come from a large extended family so you had to keep flipping back to work out who was who. The second half of the book is really the nitty gritty of the story. We find out that Jo’s mother, Willa, is slowly sliding into dementia. Jo's frustrating struggle to deal with it is very emotional. She misses dearly the mother of her early life.

I wonder now if the flicking from one character to another and one time to another in the first part of the story is actually a reflection of how the memory of a person suffering from dementia would work.