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Mother's Ruin

By Nicola Barry

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Mother's Ruin

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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 details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
304
Release Date:
2008-03-20
Publication Date:
2008-03-20
Publisher:
Hachette Australia
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
07553573290755316746
ISBN13:
9780755316748
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
216 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
196 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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