Autumn's Colours

by Nick Holloway

Nick Holloway’s nursing career was spent working in care homes in South Wales. His many experiences, sad, shocking, harrowing, uplifting, depressing and amusing, inspired him to write Autumn’s Colours, his first novel. This light-hearted story is set in an imaginary care home in the Dorset town of Dorchester, England, the town in which Nick trained as a nurse. The people and events in the book are based closely on real care homes, real people and real towns. They squabble, chat, fall out, banter, make friends and attempt to seduce each other – just like people in the outside world. The events described in the book will be familiar to anyone who works in a care home, or who visits somebody in one.

93 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2012

Reviews

[LC · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gives an insight into the lives of residents and staff at a care home. Four stars due to this unusual perspective/ setting. However be aware this is a textbook of fictional case studies, broken up by quizzes at the end of each chapter, rather than a novel. It loses a star because the characters aren't well developed (with the exception of Dave) and there is no 'flow' through the book though I appreciate this may not be the goal of a textbook.