Mother's Ruin

By Nicola Barry

Subjects: Maternal behaviour, Family Relations, Scotland, biography, Alcoholics, Mothers and daughters, Women, biography, Social Problems, Alcoholism, Biography, Children of alcoholics, Women alcoholics, Childhood and youth, Parent-Child Relations, Family relationships

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.