A Story about Alcohol, Bingo and Broken Promises "I really didn’t want to write this book. I didn’t want to remember how it felt to never know whether my mother would be sober when I came home from school. I didn’t want to remember the metallic taste ...
A Story about Alcohol, Bingo and Broken Promises
"I really didn’t want to write this book. I didn’t want to remember how it felt to never know whether my mother would be sober when I came home from school. I didn’t want to remember the metallic taste of fear in my mouth every time she tried to kill herself. I didn’t want to go back to that apartment and smell the stale wine, urine and vomit."
The writer and journalist Hillevi Wahl grew up with two alcoholic parents. This is her story in novel form about her search for answers, about a journey back in time. Right into the hellish life of a child born to alcoholic parents.
Settling with her past became necessary, she says, for her own sake, for her children’s sake, and for the sake of all the other “love children”.