Incontinent on the ContinentJane ChristmasLabel: Lion BooksDescription: To honour a promise to her dying father Jane takes her ageing incontinent mother to Italy. What could possibly go wrong? Jane Christmas had always had a difficult relationship with her mother but thought that a mother and daughter trip to Italy could be the start of a whole new friendship. In this hilarious but poignant memoir she discovers that it will not be that easy. Describing her mother as a cross between 'Queen Victoria and Hyacinth Bucket' Jane struggles to build bridges to a woman she has always found a puzzle while also trying to cope with her mother's failing health and physical needs.
