TY  - SOUND
AU  - Laveau-Harvie, Vickie,
ED  - Harper Audio (Firm)
TI  - The erratics
SN  - 9781460780831
U1  - 616.85 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Tullamarine, Victoria : 
PB  - Bolinda Audio, 
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Biography
KW  - Dysfunctional families
KW  - Mothers
KW  - Mental health
KW  - Mentally ill
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - Abused husbands
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Read by the author
N2  - 'We've been disowned and disinherited: there's no changing it, I say. When something bad happens to them, we'll know soon enough and we'll deal with it together. I don't realise it at the time, but when I say that, I imply I care. I imply there may be something to be salvaged. I misspeak. But I'm flying out anyway. Blood calls to blood; what can I tell you.' This is a memoir about a dysfunctional family, about a mother and her daughters. But make no mistake. This is like no mother-daughter relationship you know. When Vicki Laveau-Harvie's elderly mother is hospitalised unexpectedly, Vicki and her sister travel to their parents' isolated ranch home in Alberta, Canada, to help their father. Estranged from their parents for many years, Vicki and her sister are horrified by what they discover on their arrival. For years, Vicki's mother has camouflaged her manic delusions and savage unpredictability, and over the decades she has managed to shut herself and her husband away from the outside world, systematically starving him and making him a virtual prisoner in his own home. Vicki and her sister have a lot to do, in very little time, to save their father. And at every step they have to contend with their mother, whose favourite phrase during their childhood was: 'I'll get you and you won't even know I'm doing it.'
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