Book review: The Heart of Everything

MAGS JENSEN’S memory isn’t all it was. And although she hasn’t, yet, got a diagnosis, both she and her doctor fear that her many lapses herald the onset of dementia. 

Her elder daughter, Anita, who, living close by, accompanied her mother to the consultant, decides to keep the news to herself, rather than worry her two absent siblings.

One morning Mags sets off on a few errands, and she doesn’t return in time to meet Anita, as planned. At first simply annoyed, Anita then worries, and rings her brother, Ray, who, eventually, agrees to travel to Dublin.