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Nicola Barry grew up inwell-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 slowlysucking the life out of her. And how - with her father at work, and her brothers away atschool -Nicolaspent 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 howalcohol 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.

Mothers Ruin

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      Publisher Headline Publishing Group
      Published 20 March 2008
      ISBN-13 9780755316748
      978-0755316748
      ISBN-10 0755316746
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      Coping with / advice about drug and alcohol problems

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Nicola Barry grew up inwell-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 slowlysucking the life out of her. And how - with her father at work, and her brothers away atschool -Nicolaspent 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 howalcohol 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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