In the blood : on mothers, daughters and addiction / Arabella Byrne, Julia Hamilton.

Byrne, Arabella, author
Hamilton, Julia, author

London : HQ, 2024.

304 pages ; 24 cm

'In the Blood' is a memoir in two voices, those of a mother and daughter both in the grip of the disease that has ravaged generations of women in their family. Julia, aged sixty-five, and Arabella, thirty-eight, ended up in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous just nine months apart. In some ways it's a predictable story; two addicts drank and destroyed and ransacked until they could drink no more. In others, it is entirely unlike any account of motherhood or addiction that has ever been told. This is not a recovery memoir, but rather an unflinching family drama spanning generations, whilst looking pain and shame directly in the eye.

9780008648435 (hbk)

616.861

RC565

616.861

English

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