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Raw and powerful journey through addiction and survival.

This book could be a good read for someone seeking a raw and powerful exploration of addiction and survival. Nicola Barry's story of her mother's alcoholism and its devastating impact on their family is a gripping and harrowing tale that is not easy to forget. Through her own battle with alcoholism, Barry delivers a story of resilience and triumph that will leave readers inspired and deeply moved. The book's raw honesty and bleak humor provide a unique and unforgettable reading experience.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Mother's Ruin

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ISBN: 9780755316748
Authors: Nicola Barry
Publisher: Headline
Date of Publication: 2008-03-20
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.95
(rated by 211 readers)

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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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Raw and powerful journey through addiction and survival.

This book could be a good read for someone seeking a raw and powerful exploration of addiction and survival. Nicola Barry's story of her mother's alcoholism and its devastating impact on their family is a gripping and harrowing tale that is not easy to forget. Through her own battle with alcoholism, Barry delivers a story of resilience and triumph that will leave readers inspired and deeply moved. The book's raw honesty and bleak humor provide a unique and unforgettable reading experience.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.