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Mother's Ruin
Engelsk Paperback
Mother's Ruin
Engelsk Paperback

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Nicola Barry grew up in well-to-do Murrayfield, Edinburgh. Her father was a hopsital consultant, her mother was medically trained, her brothers boarders at public school. But behind the closed doors of their imposing family home, her mother was drinking herself to death. A beautiful, quirky woman, this is the story of how Monica Barry became a prisoner to alcohol and a prisoner in her own home, her addiction slowly sucking the life out of her. And how - with her father at work, and her brothers away at school - Nicola spent a lot of her childhood as her mother''s unofficial carer: hauling her from the bath when she was too drunk to function and running errands to buy her booze.

Full of harrowing incidents, and warmed by a touching, bleak humour, this is the powerful story of how a mother drank herself to death and how alcohol destroyed a family. And of how Nicola battled with her own alcoholism but, determined to throw off her mother''s legacy, came through - a survivor.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
304
ISBN-13:
9780755316748
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0755316746
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
20 mar 2008
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
129mm
Højde:
197mm
Forlag:
Headline Publishing Group
Oplagsdato:
20 mar 2008
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