I'll Die After Bingo: My unlikely life as a care home assistant

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And Hannah Weatherill, acting head of media rights with Penguin Random House, said: ‘Pope’s memoir about his work as a carer is extraordinary – he captures the personalities of the residents, their families, and his colleagues in all their complexity with incredible empathy and humour.

Hats off also to him for his dedication in working this broken system, and I'm sure than many of the residents were that much the better because of him.The references to academic books on the subject and his philosopising went over my head and I was not sure they were not just there to make us realise how well read and intellectual he was as opposed to the majority of care home workers . Morwenna Gordon, Executive Producer, Scripted for Expectation, said: “I was completely won over by Pope’s writing. The bottom-line watching corporate model is gaining traction, meaning less money going into actual care, and more carer burn out. But his “unsanitised, unsentimentalised” account of the decade he spent “wearing haemorrhoids as cufflinks”, spooning out yoghurt and hearing people’s most intimate (and sometimes final) confessions will leave readers in no doubt of the emotional, physical and financial pressures of the undersung and underpaid job. Also a stand up comic, there's a surprisingly light touch to Pope's writing considering the challenging nature of his subject matter.

If you are in the North America, look out for US/Canadian flag icons on popular product listings for direct links. I’m very grateful they’ve taken a punt on me, a recovering crackhead Quaker, and my book – a book that includes a line about swallowing boobs. Instead he prefers to engage in deeper conversation and often entertained his charges with comic outbursts.All the events of the book take place before Lockdown when the plight of care homes was brought more to the fore on the news, since which time everything seems to have been forgotten again, dropped from our collective conscience.