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The Mankeeper
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $30.00
ISBN13: 9781764339308
Publisher: Clear Mind Press
Published: Nov 7 2025
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
At seventy-nine, Joy learns a new word: mankeeper. The word fits and chafes at once. In a coastal town of bowls greens, church pews and Norfolk pines, she tends to Art in the realm where care is mostly invisible: reading the weather of his face, staging days with lists and small calibrations, keeping pills lined up next to plates and hope tucked under a fridge magnet. As seasons turn, a fall on the back step, a neighbour's kindness, a son's visits and the camaraderie of a men's shed rearrange the household's balance of rage and dependence.
The Mankeeper is a close-up portrait of late-life partnership, of how love, habit and stubborn autonomy jostle in kitchen and shed, on the breakwater and under the eave. It is about the choreography of ageing, the politics of chores and tone, and the audacity of claiming an hour to write. Joy is list-maker outside and author inside, learning what is hers to carry and what she can set down.
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