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Jinny Wilson’s The House of Ticking Clocks: A Memoir of Mothers, Memory and Moving On
09/07/25, 11:00
In this quietly powerful memoir, Jinny Wilson reflects on her mother’s decline and death — and the quiet, personal transformation that followed. The House of Ticking Clocks is a meditation on family, time and the stories we carry forward.
- The House of Ticking Clocks is an intimate memoir about caring for a parent, losing them, and being changed in the process. Written by Jinny Wilson, this reflective, moving account centres on the slow decline and death of her mother, set against the backdrop of the family home — a place haunted not by ghosts, but by clocks, memories and emotional echoes.
As Wilson grapples with the practical and emotional realities of caregiving, she also begins to excavate a deeper story: the complicated legacy of a mother-daughter relationship shaped by expectation, silence and resilience. The memoir unfolds as a meditation on time — literal and metaphorical — as Jinny chronicles not only her mother’s passing but her own emergence into something fuller, more self-aware.
Told with quiet lyricism, wry humour and emotional depth, The House of Ticking Clocks is a book about grief that avoids sentimentality. It’s about presence: what it means to witness, to endure, and eventually, to accept. It’s also about healing — not through grand catharsis, but through small acts of observation, memory and reclaiming one’s voice.
For readers drawn to memoirs that speak to caregiving, family tension, and personal reinvention, The House of Ticking Clocks is an unforgettable, grounded exploration of what remains after everything has changed.
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