Spiiling the Beans by Clarissa Dickinson Wright
What a fabulous story of one womans fight against alcohol, she was that drunk over a decade she had no idea that the Falklands War had happened, it was only years later in rehab that she found out!! The book is full of pain, sadness but also extremely funny. I take my hat off to her - if she can do it so can I
.......... Clarissa has lived her life on a grand scale. Her mother was an Australian heiress, her father a brilliant surgeon. But he was also a tyrannical and violent drunk. Clarissa was determined and clever though and her ambition led her, at the age of 21, to be the youngest woman ever called to the Bar.
Shortly after, disaster struck when her adored mother died suddenly and Clarissa's grief led to a mind-numbing decade of over-indulgence during which she drank and partied away her entire enormous inheritance. It was a long hard road to recovery - and in the end it was cooking that brought her success, as one half of the much-loved TV partnership Two Fat Ladies, as well as sobriety and peace.
Spilling the beans is Clarissa's extraordinary story of a life lived passionately and resolutely on her own terms.............
What a fabulous story of one womans fight against alcohol, she was that drunk over a decade she had no idea that the Falklands War had happened, it was only years later in rehab that she found out!! The book is full of pain, sadness but also extremely funny. I take my hat off to her - if she can do it so can I
.......... Clarissa has lived her life on a grand scale. Her mother was an Australian heiress, her father a brilliant surgeon. But he was also a tyrannical and violent drunk. Clarissa was determined and clever though and her ambition led her, at the age of 21, to be the youngest woman ever called to the Bar.
Shortly after, disaster struck when her adored mother died suddenly and Clarissa's grief led to a mind-numbing decade of over-indulgence during which she drank and partied away her entire enormous inheritance. It was a long hard road to recovery - and in the end it was cooking that brought her success, as one half of the much-loved TV partnership Two Fat Ladies, as well as sobriety and peace.
Spilling the beans is Clarissa's extraordinary story of a life lived passionately and resolutely on her own terms.............
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