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The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. This novel is entirely a work of fiction. Simon McDermott asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.Ī catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. It remembers a childhood of sleeping top-to-toe, rationing, adventure in the woods and making-do-and-mending, a close-knit community, and a life-long passion for music.Full of poignant moments, the ups and downs of family life and treasured memories, The Songaminute Man is a story of two halves: a celebration of the man Ted was, and a powerful and moving account of caring for a loved one.Ĭopyright (#ulink_06bf0483-b522-5a94-bb43-7e2b30b64cbc)Īn imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.įirst published in Great Britain by HQ in 2017 This is that story.Set in the heart of the Black Country just before WWII, and written with the help of Ted’s friends and family, The Songaminute Man recalls a boy who became a gutsy and fiercely loyal man. His Dad – the storyteller of his childhood and his best friend – couldn’t tell his own story, so Simon would tell it for him. Their carpool karaoke had gone viral all the way across the globe.But a record deal, Pride of Britain Awards, over £130,000 raised for The Alzheimer’s Society and a Top 10 single later, Simon was still losing Ted. And like that, they were just two mates driving around Blackburn, singing at the top of their lungs.Simon filmed their adventure, uploaded the video to YouTube and woke up to messages, tweets and his phone ringing off the hook. Turning the ignition in his mum’s little runaround, Simon hit play on Ted’s favourite song Quando Quando Quando. As Ted retreated into his own world, Simon and his mum Linda desperately tried to reach him until at last: an idea. Then came the devastating, inevitable diagnosis. A tribute to the unbreakable bond between father and son.When Simon McDermott first noticed his dad Ted’s sudden flares of temper and fits of forgetfulness, he couldn’t have guessed what lay ahead. The heartbreaking true account of his son struggling to come to terms with his father’s dementia. The nostalgic memoir of a young man, eldest of fourteen, growing up in 40s Wednesbury. The Songaminute Man: How music brought my father home again
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