Marcus is available to deliver talks, presentations, book readings and Q and A sessions.
Themes include With You in the Moment, strengths based support, and creating positive environments.
Please email for more information.
With You in the Moment is a heartfelt memoir about one family’s experience of dementia, told with warmth, honesty, and a belief in the power of presence. Rather than focusing on loss, it offers a hopeful perspective—showing how creativity, humour, and practical care can help preserve dignity and connection.
Through everyday experiences—doctor’s visits, changing routines, unexpected crises, and quiet victories—the family learns to adapt with compassion, focusing on strengths rather than limitations. The result is a deeply human story that embraces the messiness and beauty of living well, even when facing difficult circumstances.
This is not a clinical guide, but a personal reflection on mindset, resilience, and the enduring bonds that hold us together. With You in the Moment offers gentle insight and inspiration for anyone living with dementia or supporting someone they love, reminding us that even in uncertainty, there is room for joy.
Marcus Batterbury’s career has followed a meandering and unpredictable path. Amongst other things he has worked as a bike messenger, a fitness instructor, cleaner, waiter, teacher and trainer. He has also travelled the UK by way of a green and beautiful campervan, and the world by way of trains, planes and bicycles.
Marcus lives on the south coast of England with his partner Simon and his dog Milo.
I love this – there is no illness here, no need for short-term memory, no threats, no worries; just us, and the space we occupy in the natural world around us.
A heartfelt tribute that prioritizes personal history
Rather than dwell on his mother’s illness, the author frames his approach as viewing her experience through “rose-tinted specs,” focusing deliberately on joy and connection rather than decline. He describes this choice as a conscious one to validate Renee’s reality instead of correcting it—a philosophy of being “with her in the moment” that becomes this book’s guiding principle.
Overall, the book works best as a tribute to a remarkable, much-loved woman, written with genuine tenderness; its emphasis on validation, dignity, and emotional presence is universal.
'Batterbury chronicles his family’s experience with his mother’s dementia with warmth, humor, and devotion.'
