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PREISSLESS: The Extraordinary Finding and Losing of a Man
"He’s a bit like Mr Bean, but sexy," says Jacqui, about her husband Frank’s demeanour long before he got dementia. “Everything goes wrong but it all works out for him in the end.” You could say the same for Jacqui, who made it through the American army, a disastrous marriage, a mental hospital and plenty more, before finding her first true love, in Frank, at the age of thirty-seven.
Reaching back as far as Frank’s birth in 1925 Czechoslovakia, ‘Preissless’ is the couple’s double-biography and their somewhat unlikely love story, as they met when Jacqui was six and Frank was twenty-eight, and he fell in love with her mother. Frank never became Jacqui's step-father because he was also deeply in love with his wife, Magda, with whom he ran the extraordinary and widely celebrated London restaurant, The Mignon.
With its live gypsy band, rave reviews and celebrities among the regulars, The Mignon Hungarian Restaurant is the home at the heart of this book, where romance, friendships and hilarity abound throughout it’s thirty-eight-year history, beginning in the 1950’s. Zoltan the waiter, who was in the profession for forty-three years altogether, says,
“Never seen anything like it before, never seen anything like it since.”
Amid the couple's history, we explore their life in the present day, shedding some light (along with laughs) on what it means to suffer with dementia.
100% OF BOOK PROFITS ARE BEING DONATED TO A DEMENTIA CARERS CHARITY.
Reaching back as far as Frank’s birth in 1925 Czechoslovakia, ‘Preissless’ is the couple’s double-biography and their somewhat unlikely love story, as they met when Jacqui was six and Frank was twenty-eight, and he fell in love with her mother. Frank never became Jacqui's step-father because he was also deeply in love with his wife, Magda, with whom he ran the extraordinary and widely celebrated London restaurant, The Mignon.
With its live gypsy band, rave reviews and celebrities among the regulars, The Mignon Hungarian Restaurant is the home at the heart of this book, where romance, friendships and hilarity abound throughout it’s thirty-eight-year history, beginning in the 1950’s. Zoltan the waiter, who was in the profession for forty-three years altogether, says,
“Never seen anything like it before, never seen anything like it since.”
Amid the couple's history, we explore their life in the present day, shedding some light (along with laughs) on what it means to suffer with dementia.
100% OF BOOK PROFITS ARE BEING DONATED TO A DEMENTIA CARERS CHARITY.
257 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 30, 2016
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