Liz Forbat is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She has an ongoing interest in relationship difficulties, and has worked as a psychologist in acute psychiatry and forensics.

• Introduction: Talking about care/caring about talk; Constructions of care: the family, difficulties and policy; Biographies, family histories and discursive psychology; Accounts of care and accounting for care: repertoires in talk; Embedding difficulties in talk about care relationships; Mapping family history: the genealogy of difficulties and care; Two sides to the care story: illuminating the analytic potential; Talking about care: practice implications.

"Talking about Care makes an important contribution to social constructionist research into care relationships ... and an excellent illustration of what a discursive approach can offer to the study and practice of informal and family care ... This book should be required reading for practitioners, trainees, advanced level students, academics and researchers within health and social care and related disciplines as well as those seeking to develop critical reflexivity in the theory and practice care." Ageing and Society