Mother's Ruin
Women alcoholics
Children of alcoholics
Scotland, biography
Family Relations
Parent-Child Relations
Alcoholics
Social problems
Alcoholism
Women, biography
Childhood and youth
Mothers and daughters
Family relationships
Biography
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.
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