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With a Father Like Mine

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​“As a child, I watched these fits of temper and believed that was what a man did . . . But when Dad’s dark side turned on Mum I knew that should never happen . . . One afternoon while Dad was rounding his usual abuse, I heard the heavy thump of someone dropping to the floor and rushed into their bedroom . . .” This is a story of a man who grew up in provincial New Zealand, in a poor home, with family addiction threatening to seal his fate.
M O Chamberlain grew up in provincial New Zealand, in a poor home, with family addiction threatening to seal his fate.
In this sweeping memoir,  M.O. Chamberlain tracks the consequences of the wild, unpredictable nature of family life with a problem drinker and lays bare those unexamined scripts that drive people to repeat the same addictive cycle, even when they have vowed it will never happen to them.
A story of tragedy and triumph, love and loss, struggle and success, it takes place across numerous continents and relates his adventures sailing the Atlantic and hitch-hiking around the Americas while revealing insights into New Zealand’s criminal underclass and life in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
With a Father like Mine is a book that stirs the soul and provides inspiration and a ray of hope to all those suffering from family addiction.
 
“Engrossing. Chamberlain writes  fluently and has an ear for what is entertaining . . . He knows how to hustle a narrative along. It certainly is a rattling good read”. MATT TURNER, FORMER EDITOR PENGUIN BOOKS
 “Written in a style that holds the reader through the tragedy of his parents’ lives and the many  influences that fashioned his father”. LLOYD EDWARDS
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