Juliet Nicolson

The shame of being an alcoholic mother

Julia Hamilton and her daughter Arabella Byrne share their experiences of an addiction that seemed ‘baked into them like a curse’, and the special stigma they felt attached to them

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  • In the Blood: On Mothers, Daughters and Addiction

    Arabella Byrne and Julia Hamilton

    HarperCollins, pp. 304, £16

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