All hell breaks loose when a care facility in Belgium is hit by covid-19 following a visit from Saint Nicholas. The person who acted as the Saint, a caregiver for his elderly mother, is labelled a super spreader and briefly becomes global headline news.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of nursing homes suffered outbreaks, thousands of senior citizens died. But this true story of the role of a caregiver raises probing questions about what was really going on.<\/p>\n
Thirty years after his sensational debut, Chris de Stoop writes his most personal book to date. It is a universal story that arouses discomfort while being highly recognisable. A moving, humane, unsettling chronicle told from the inside out.<\/p>\n
‘You never get closer to your mother than when providing informal care, and in my case, that carried on for eight years. I spent more than a thousand days there, experiencing some beautiful, intimate and difficult moments. It’s taxing, but incredibly satisfying.’ \u2013 <\/em>Chris de Stoop in de Volkskrant, referring to his book Kingdom of Heaven<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" About the book All hell breaks loose when a care facility in Belgium is hit by covid-19 following a visit from Saint Nicholas. The person who acted as the Saint, a caregiver for his elderly mother, is labelled a super spreader and briefly becomes global headline news. Hundreds of nursing homes suffered outbreaks, thousands of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3251,"featured_media":40657,"parent":34765,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40651","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/3251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40651\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/40657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}