# Matchstick Man

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- Book: [Matchstick Man](https://www.bookquiver.com/julia-kelly/matchstick-man) ([Matchstick Man.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/julia-kelly/matchstick-man.md))
- Authors: [Julia Kelly](https://www.bookquiver.com/julia-kelly)
- Publisher: Head of Zeus
- ISBN: 978-17-8854-015-5
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2019-05-16
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Julia Kelly met a charismatic and successful artist, Charlie Whisker, while she was working on her first novel. He was twenty years older than her. Their relationship was passionate and extraordinary; each of them inspired the other. Their friends were writers, artists and rock stars; they lived a glamorous life of exhibitions, parties and concerts. They became parents to a daughter they adored. But Charlie suddenly changed, becoming hopelessly forgetful, angry and confused. This is an unbearably honest, unsentimental and heartbreaking description of a brilliant man''s mental disintegration and its effects on his family. Charlie''s disturbing behaviour is described in a series of terrible, understated revelations. An unforgettable telling of a story that will be familiar to many thousands of people in the UK and Ireland.