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Nicola Barry
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Mother's Ruin |
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No copies available |
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| Published in: |
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English |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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256 |
| Date: |
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2007-07-12 |
| ISBN: |
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0755316738 |
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Headline Review |
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0.93 pounds |
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6.06 x 0.83 x 9.25 inches |
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| Previous givers: |
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1 Helen Frances (Australia) |
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1 Sheena Smith (USA: NY) |
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| Description: |
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Product Description
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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http://bookmooch.com/0755316738 |
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