Mother's Ruin

By Nicola Barry

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

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.