Forever Today

This is a harrowing, haunting and heartening book - a loss-story which is also a love story. It takes us deep inside the question of what it means to be human. – Andrew Motion
Sometimes terrifying, sometimes very funny, and always deeply moving, Deborah Wearing’s beautifully written testament to a love that survives all the ravages of her husband’s amnesia is a book to seize the heart. – Lindsay Clarke, author of the Whitbread winning The Chymical Wedding
A remarkable book: absorbing, moving and humbling. – Fay Weldon
Loving, terrifying and often extremely funny, an astonishing voyage into the very heart of what makes us human. – Deborah Moggach
I had the privilege of filming a documentary about Deborah and Clive and like the rest of the crew I was immediately struck with the extraordinary patience and affection with which Deborah dealt with this appalling ordeal. In Forever Today she takes us further than ever into this remarkable experience. – Jonathan Miller
‘This is a harrowing story of a human tragedy. Harrowing yet uplifting, for it portrays the indefatigable human spirit of two people grappling with an unprecedented and shattering dilemma. A sensitive and deeply moving account, a heart rending love story - but unlike any other ever told’ – Jack Ashley (Rt. Hon. Lord Ashley of Stoke)
‘A compelling, poignant and exquisitely written account of a young woman reaching into the dark empty spaces of her husband’s damaged brain and finding love within the limitations of his brilliant but fractured mind. It is the most dramatic description of “the abyss of non-being” since Oliver Sacks’ Awakenings’ – Marjorie Wallace, founder of SANE
‘Overwhelmingly moving…Her harrowing book is a description of utterly unselfish love. It also raises scary questions about what exactly makes us human.’ – Val Hennessy * Daily Mail *
‘An extraordinary story of constancy in love, and Deborah Wearing tells in brilliantly.’ * Evening Standard *
‘Delivers a message of hope about human identity. It is similar to the moral drawn by John Bayley after his wife, Irish Murdoch, was struck down by Alzheimer’s and it is this: ‘Clive was living evidence that you could lost almost everything you ever knew about yourself and still be yourself.’ * Mail on Sunday *

Deborah Wearing campaigned for specialist services for brain-injured people and helped found a national charity, the Amnesia Association (merged in 1991 with Headway). She now works as a communications officer in the NHS.

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