Mother's Ruin
Publisher: Headline Review
Published: July 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780755316731
Subjects: Biography: general; Coping with drug & alcohol abuse
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.