Mothers Ruin

Download or read book Mother's Ruin written by Nicola Barry and published by Headline. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicola Barry grew up in well-to-do Murrayfield, Edinburgh. Her father was a hopsital 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. A beautiful, quirky woman, this is the story of how Monica Barry became a prisoner to alcohol and a prisoner in her own home, her addiction slowly sucking the life out of her. And how - with her father at work, and her brothers away at school - Nicola spent a lot of her childhood as her mother's unofficial carer: hauling her from the bath when she was too drunk to function and running errands to buy her booze. Full of harrowing incidents, and warmed by a touching, bleak humour, this is the powerful story of how a mother drank herself to death and how alcohol destroyed a family. And of how Nicola battled with her own alcoholism but, determined to throw off her mother's legacy, came through - a survivor.

Download or read book My Mom Is Trying to Ruin My Life written by Kate Feiffer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has only nice things to say about my mom. Everyone likes her. She looks nice. She bakes great cookies and makes me feel better when I have a bad day. But would a really nice mom do embarrassing things like kiss me in public and tell loud jokes that no one thinks are funny? Well, my mom does those terrible things and worse - that's why I am sure that I have the most embarrassing mom in the world and that my mom is trying to ruin my life... Or is she?

Download or read book Gin Glorious Gin: How Mother's Ruin Became the Spirit of London written by Olivia Williams and published by Headline. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gin Glorious Gin is a vibrant cultural history of London seen through the prism of its most iconic drink. Leading the reader through the underbelly of the Georgian city via the Gin Craze, detouring through the Empire (with a G&T in hand), to the emergence of cocktail bars in the West End, the story is brought right up to date with the resurgence of class in a glass - the Ginnaissance. As gin has crossed paths with Londoners of all classes and professions over the past three hundred years it has become shorthand for metropolitan glamour and alcoholic squalor in equal measure. In and out of both legality and popularity, gin is a drink that has seen it all. Gin Glorious Gin is quirky, informative, full of famous faces - from Dickens to Churchill, Hogarth to Dr Johnson - and introduces many previously unknown Londoners, hidden from history, who have shaped the city and its signature drink.

Download or read book Mother's Ruin written by Kitty Neale and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her beloved Gran Sadie has a stroke, Sally must move back to Candle Lane with her husband Arthur and young daughter Angela, to care for her. But Sadie's illness has made the loving woman they once knew, bigoted and angry. Sadie is testing everyone's patience, especially that of her own daughter, Ruth.

Download or read book Tailgreat written by John Currence and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bring home all the flavors and excitement of game day thanks to a lifetime of tailgating wisdom from James Beard Award winner and Top Chef Masters contestant John Currence. John Currence is one of the most celebrated and beloved chefs in America, but he’s also a tailgating fanatic. For years he has prepared fans to go into battle before football games on his home turf in Oxford, Mississippi, supplying them with dishes that go way beyond the expected burgers and hot dogs. In Tailgreat he makes his case that tailgating food can be so much more than sad store-bought dips and chips, as we celebrate the spirit of coming together with friends and family to support a common cause: our team. The dishes are flavor-packed hits like Korean BBQ Wings, Grilled Corn Guacamole, Sweet Mustard Pulled Pork, and NOLA Roast Beef Po’Boy Bites. With these recipes you will surely lead your team, or at least your next meal, to victory.

Download or read book Vienna written by Nick Thomas and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vienna, 1984. Fifty years after his first visit, retired British General Sir Herbert Christie returns to the city where he first knew romantic love and loss in the midst of civil war. But the opening of his Austrian uncle’s time-capsule legacy entangles his family in a web of Cold War espionage, and forces him to confront his past and his faith as never before.

Download or read book Prison Diaries written by Priya Gaikwad and published by Educreation Publishing. This book was released on with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India does not have 29 states as it claims, but 30 states, 30th being Bhastapur. Bhastapur is so downtrodden and corrupt that India feels ashamed to include it in its map. The story happens in a women’s prison located in Bhastapur. It is about the animosity between female inmates and the tyrannical jailer, Baal Rana, who rules the prison. Baal does not leave a stone unturned to torture every woman in the prison. After constant tortures and mysterious murders, the women of the prison decide to bring a change. But how can they bring change without getting caught? Will they ever get rid of Baal Rana? Will they ever taste freedom? Will the state of Bhastapur change?