The Frequency of Us: A BBC2 Between the Covers book club pick

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Wow this book was amazing! As soon as I finished it I wanted to read it all over again, something I never do! The colon cancer study estimated errors in CRC diagnosis in 26 out of 291 773 patients seen in outpatient care (0.009%). Extrapolating to the US adult population that seeks outpatient care, we estimated 0.007% of all adults would have errors related to CRC per year. In the lung cancer study, we found 127 errors in 587 cases of lung cancer, yielding a 21.64% error rate. Extrapolating to the 80.5% of the US adult population that seeks outpatient care and the 0.072% of the population that becomes newly diagnosed with lung cancer each year, 16 we estimate 0.013% of all adults would have errors related to lung cancer per year. This is the third book I've read by Keith Stuart and it certainly lived up to his previous form. It was beautifully written and although a little far fetched at times, it took me with it the whole way.

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Laura herself has her own problems. She suffers from Anxiety and depression. This is her first job and she hoped to make a difference. But after devising her report. She got Will all wrong and she goes out of her way to find out the truth to what happened to Elsa. Stuart keeps us in suspense as we follow the revelations of crotchety old Will and the neurotic determination of young Laura to discover what really happened to Elsa. Who was the young neighbour in Will’s wireless workshop when the bombers approached? Why did Laura’s father become aggressive towards her? Was Elsa a kraut (or a spy) – and how did playing Schubert at a party help to “save” her? What does her aunt Josephine know? And can the demolition of Will’s old house be delayed while its secrets are being unearthed?I loved Will, Elsa and Laura, they were fabulous characters who I believed in and wanted the best for. I sympathised with Laura as she struggled to make sense of Will’s situation. Was he telling her the truth or was the dementia making him make everything up about Elsa? I want to read this one.. and it will fit nicely into my reading challenges for a couple of prompts… adding this.

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I want to believe it’s possible,’ I say. ‘A love affair so brilliant and beautiful that nothing dims it, not even after sixty years. I’d like to know such a thing exists.’Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: The Ultimate Guide to Celebrating Christmas with the Best Drinks Books On The Shelves

THE FREQUENCY OF US: A BOOK REVIEW – Annika Perry THE FREQUENCY OF US: A BOOK REVIEW – Annika Perry

I enjoyed the relationship between Laura and Will. Both stories - in past and present - were engaging and I loved getting to know the characters. Seventy years on, in the present day, Laura is struggling with anxiety and depression. She decides to stop taking her medication and is offered a job working in social services. She is introduced to an old man whose house hasn’t changed since the war, who insists his wife vanished decades ago. Does this old man suffer from dementia? Or is something more unusual happening? It is up to Laura to find out the truth. The Frequency of Us by Keith Stuart Review: My OpinionAhead of the publication of his new novel The Frequency of Us, we asked Keith Stuart to tell us more about it. Over to you, Keith. . . In the Frequency of Us, we meet elderly Will Emerson and young carer Laura who has been given the job of assessing Will, who lives alone, to see whether he has dementia and if he needs to go into a care home. Laura is a likeable and interesting character. She has her own problems and feels realistic and well-rounded as a person. I think author Keith Stuart shows the effects of ill mental health in an honest, frank and fresh way because although we see how it has affected Laura, she is still not defined by this. Seventy years later, social worker Laura is battling her way out of depression and off medication. Her new case is a strange, isolated old man whose house hasn’t changed since the war. A man who insists his fiancé vanished many, many years before. Everyone thinks he’s suffering dementia. But Laura begins to suspect otherwise . . . Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Texas at Houston, Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality and Safety, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

The Frequency of Us: A BBC2 Between the Covers book club pick

This is still a tale told by a nearly ninety-year-old man with signs of dementia to a woman who dropped off an antidepressant cliff edge and is hitting every withdrawal symptom on the way down. We are not credible witnesses to our own lives.” The Elsa in the journals is such a remarkable, wonderful cosmopolitan woman – a gifted pianist, a lover of arts, and an attractive Austrian Jewess, who escaped to Britain before the war. It is no wonder that shy Will fell madly in love with her. Like Will and Laura, you – as the reader – also believe that she must be real. The world would surely be a much poorer place without her in it. But how could she disappear so completely? Life is a radio dial; we travel along it from left to right, and on the way we discover stations that we fall in love with and cherish – then we move on and lose them. But those stations aren’t gone. They’re still transmitting. If you listen very closely, you hear their ghosts amid the static. The people we’ve loved and think we have lost, the things that moved us, they are always there, they are bright and alive, somewhere on the dial. You just have to listen.”Funding Studies mentioned in this paper were supported by an NIH K23 Career Development Award (K23CA125585), the VA National Center of Patient Safety, and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (R18HS017820 and R18HS17244-02). HS and ANDM were supported in part by the Houston VA Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (CIN 13-413). When their house is bombed by the Nazis in 1942, Will is injured, wakes up in hospital and, on his return home, finds no sign of Elsa or her possessions. I also found evidence of the bombings– buildings with great chunks blasted out of them, areas of pavement scorched pink by fires, and of course, great sections of the city flattened by the bombs and then rebuilt in the 1960s. These little details were crucial to capturing the terror of those two nights when Bath was targeted by German bombing planes. I spent days wandering about to find the perfect place for Will’s home, which is where most of the story takes place, and eventually found it on Lansdown Road, the long winding, steep lane leading out of Bath toward the racecourse. It has excellent views of the city and is close to an area of intense bombing (Julian Road, just behind the Assembly Rooms) so it’s a historically plausible place for him to have lived, and to have been directly affected by a blast. Give me a wartime story combining a sense of history with a sweeping magical love affair and you’re guaranteed to hold my attention and make me happy. The Frequency of Us has elements to hopefully satisfy everyone. Part love story and part mystery it has its roots both firmly in the past and present, with a ghostly transcendental theme at its core. Will’s story alongside Laura’s allows the author sufficient scope to analyse the powerful inner workings of the mind plus its inherent fragility that gives rise to all manner of conditions afflicting the human psyche. Both Will and Laura’s lives are blighted and controlled by thoughts and emotions that overwhelm them making them kindred spirits. Will her appearance in his life help the pair face up to their ghosts/demons or will Laura’s investigations prompt further decline in her own mental health? I feared for both Will and Laura’s sanity as this young woman becomes equally entrenched in the past of the man she is caring for. The Frequency of Us is a novel with a bit of everything: a sweeping love story, wonderfully complex characters, and a sprinkling of the supernatural. I loved it, and know it’ll stay with me for some time’— CLARE POOLEY