Mother's Ruin

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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.

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