The Forget Me Not Chronicles

The loveable but eccentic adventures of Maggie

De: Christopher Hall

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The Forget Me Not Chronicles

By Christopher Hall
Available in Kindle and Paperback

Maggie Harris has declared herself an Icelandic princess, insists she once dated a Viking from Scarborough, and is currently holding a garden gnome hostage. She’s also losing her memory.

Tom, her long-suffering son, would love nothing more than a quiet life. Instead, he’s juggling care plans, biscuit shortages, and trying to stop his mother from getting arrested - again.

The Forget Me Not Chronicles is a sharply observed, darkly funny, and unexpectedly tender story about navigating the chaos of dementia with equal parts love, exasperation, and tea. Told through Tom’s world-weary but affectionate eyes, this book captures the beautiful absurdity of caring for someone who’s slowly forgetting who you are - but never losing who they are at heart.

Each chapter is its own comedic adventure: a failed funeral for someone still alive, a toaster deemed “a domestic terrorist,” and a deeply suspicious number of shopping baskets mysteriously appearing in Maggie’s hallway. But beneath the laughter lies something deeper - an unspoken grief, the ache of watching someone fade, and the quiet heroism of showing up anyway.

This is not a book about dementia. It’s a book about a mother and son, and the messy, ridiculous, heartbreaking love that binds them.

Because sometimes the most extraordinary journeys happen in the most ordinary living rooms.

Why This Book Exists

The Forget Me Not Chronicles isn’t just a comedy about dementia. It’s a deeply personal, sharply observed story grounded in truth - the truth that caring for someone with memory loss is both absurd and heartbreaking, often at the same time.

This is not a tragedy wrapped in comedy, nor is it a sugar-coated escape. It’s an honest exploration of what it means to remember for two people. To hold onto routines, rituals, and humour when everything else starts slipping away.

Through Tom’s dry internal monologue, Maggie’s unwavering (if occasionally criminal) confidence, and Lucy’s guilty WhatsApps from Australia, the story captures what so many families live through - a strange mix of grief, loyalty, and love that doesn’t get talked about nearly enough.

The book gently challenges the idea that dementia only looks like loss. Here, it also looks like mischief, like resilience, like a woman in a Viking helmet insisting on her right to feed squirrels biscuits soaked in tea.

This is for:

• The ones holding it all together.

• The ones laughing through the exhaustion.

• The ones reading this between phone calls, hospital letters, and half-drunk mugs of tea.

Because sometimes, the most powerful stories aren’t the loud ones. They’re the ones that whisper: You’re not alone in this.

“I laughed out loud, then cried without meaning to. The Forget Me Not Chronicles is both ridiculous and quietly devastating. I saw my own family in every page — and somehow, that made me feel less alone.”