Mother's ruin
Subtitle: the extraordinary true story of how alcohol destroys a family
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2007
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780755357321
Subjects: Women alcoholics; Family relationships; Children of alcoholics; Biography
Description: Nicola Barry grew up in well-to-do Murrayfield, Edinburgh. Her father was a hospital 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.