Mother's Ruin Paperback / softback
by Nicola Barry
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Headline Publishing Group
- Publication Date:20/03/2008
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- ISBN:9780755316748
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Headline Publishing Group
- Publication Date:20/03/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780755316748