Incontinent on the Continent, Jane Christmas
Incontinent on the Continent, Jane Christmas
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Incontinent on the Continent
My Mother, Her Walker, and Our Grand Tour of Italy

Author: Jane Christmas

Narrator: Eileen Barrett

Unabridged: 8 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/30/2012

Synopsis

In this travelogue of self-discovery, Jane Christmas brings her wickedly irreverent style to a new mother-daughter experience. Since the beginning of time, mothers and daughters have had notoriously fraught relationships. "Show me a mother who says she has a good or great relationship with her daughter," Jane Christmas writes, "and I'll show you a daughter who is in therapy trying to understand how it all went so horribly wrong." To smooth over five decades of constant clashing, Christmas takes her arthritic, incontinent, and domineering mother, Valeria - a cross between Queen Victoria and Hyacinth Bucket of the British comedy Keeping Up Appearances - on a tour of Italy. Neither has been to Italy before, but both are fans of ancient art, architecture, and history. Will gazing at the fruits of the Italian R

About Jane Christmas

JANE CHRISTMAS is the author of several bestselling books, including What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim, about her mid-life pilgrimage along Spain’s famed Camino trail; Incontinent on the Continent, about a six-week road trip through Italy with her elderly and opinionated mother in the hopes of finding a rapprochement in their relationship; as well as And Then There Were Nuns, which chronicles Jane’s discernment about entering religious life, and was a finalist for the 2014 Leacock Memorial Award for Humour. She has been published in Canada, the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal and Germany. Born and raised in Canada, Jane Christmas is the mother of three wonderful adults and the ex-wife of two kind-hearted husbands. In 2012, she moved to the UK, where she lives in southwest England with her current husband.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marie on January 02, 2015

I sympathize with Jane, I really do, but her attitude towards her mother lacks charity and grace and left me wondering why she EVER thought a 6-week trip through Italy together would be a good idea. Also not a good idea: undertaking this trip with only the barest of planning. So many of the disappoin......more

Goodreads review by Denise on July 28, 2013

I really enjoyed Jane Christmas's audio version of Incontinent on the Continent, and I'll tell you why: I have a sense of humor. For those without one, pass on this book. It wasn't meant to be a travelogue. Christmas has issues with her mother (who doesn't?) and erroneously hopes (like all of us) th......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on March 05, 2014

I expected to really like this book after hearing Jane Christmas interviewed on The Final Chapter. I didn't. Have travelled with my mother who sounds not unlike my own in terms of interests, I was ready to slap her for her self-centredness. Yes, Jane, you too will get to this age and be unsure on yo......more

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