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Postcards from a Stranger - by Imogen Clark

This is the first book I have read by Imogen Clark, chosen really as it was available on Kindle Unlimited, reviews were generally very good and the blurb sounded interesting. The story begins in the past with a young child picking up a postcard delivered by the postman, and a father who dismisses his daughter's request for him to read the words to her. Fast forward twenty years and the story moves to the young child as an adult, struggling to cope with her fathers illness, begging her older brother for help.  Cara tells her brother Michael that their father's Alzheimer's is getting worse, she wants to employ a nurse.  During the desperate telephone conversation, their father, Joe, is causing mayhem, banging a spoon on the table, scattering tea bags on the floor and pouring milk on top. Cara employs a nurse to help her with her father.  The nurse is an interesting character.  Angela Partington. I wasn't sure if I liked her at first - she seems quite forward, but...