'I've never read a book like it. It's as if they tore their own hearts out and asked the other
to hold it for them while they wrote.' Phoebe Waller-Bridge 'A terrific read' Amy Liptrot
author of The Outrun 'Remarkable...As a stark insight into the disease In the Blood makes a
mark...' The Sunday Times Culture ¿'Alcohol flows across families like water over a landscape.
Sometimes it moves in torrents sometimes in floods sometimes in trickles. It always shapes
the ground it covers in unmistakable ways.' In the Blood is a memoir in two voices those of a
mother and daughter both in the grip of the disease that has ravaged generations of women in
their family. Julia aged sixty-five and Arabella thirty-eight ended up in the rooms of
Alcoholics Anonymous just nine months apart. In some ways it's a predictable story two addicts
drank and destroyed and ransacked until they could drink no more. In others it is entirely
unlike any account of motherhood or addiction that has ever been told. This is not a recovery
memoir but rather an unflinching family drama spanning generations whilst looking pain and
shame directly in the eye. Confronting the difficulty of writing faithfully about those we love
and the ways in which memory blurs the boundaries of fact this is the story of women who grew
up in shadows and have navigated their way out of darkness. Brutally honest darkly funny and
bursting with hope In The Blood is the sound of the howling cry of illness and betrayal across
generations and what you do with that sound when you hear it.
