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Nicci Gerrard

Biography

Nicci Gerrard

As well as being a novelist, Nicci Gerrard is a journalist, a campaigner and a humanist celebrant. She writes for The Observer and is the co-author, with Sean French, of the UK bestselling Nicci French thrillers. In 2016 she won the Orwell Prize for Journalism, for a piece exploring dementia. Following her father’s death in 2014, she co-founded John’s Campaign, which seeks to make care for those who are vulnerable and powerless more compassionate, and is now a national movement in the UK.

Nicci Gerrard

Books by Nicci Gerrard

The Last Ocean: What Dementia Teaches Us About Love
by Nicci Gerrard - Memoir, Nonfiction

After a diagnosis of dementia, Nicci Gerrard’s father, John, continued to live life on his own terms, alongside the disease. But when an isolating hospital stay precipitated a dramatic turn for the worse, Gerrard --- an award-winning journalist and author --- recognized that it was not just the disease, but misguided protocol and harmful practices that cause such pain at the end of life. Gerrard was inspired to seek a better course for all who suffer because of the disease. THE LAST OCEAN is Gerrard’s investigation into what dementia does to both the person who lives with the condition and to their caregivers.