Skirmishes 1982 - Articles Page 5

Two sisters clash at their mother's bedside. For one, every day of her mother's illness adds to the waste of her own life, while the other sees the old house as the trap she has tried to escape. With often grim humour they wrestle with their burden of responsibility. Catherine Hayes casts an acute but gentle eye on the subject of parental decline and turns a potentially morbid subject into a humane and moving account.