With a Father Like Mine
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Author: M O Chamberlain
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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.
Paperback. Price includes postage
“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
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