Daffodils ; a memoir / Louise Beech ; read by Lesley Harcourt.
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SoundPublisher: Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2022]Copyright date: ℗2022Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 8 CDs (9 hr., 49 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in containerContent type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9781038604057Subject(s): Beech, Louise | Families | Life change events | Suicide -- Prevention | Suicide -- PsychologyGenre/Form: Audiobooks. | Autobiographies. DDC classification: 362.28 Read by Lesley Harcourt.Summary: Louise has revealed the harrowing story in which she reflects on her life and the bridge incident that shook her family to the core. 2019. Dawn. The River Humber. A misty February walk. Surprise early daffodils. A picture taken. Then forgotten. Because five hours later my world shattered. My mother jumped off the Humber Bridge. Had those yellow flowers not delayed me, I might have been there. Could I have stopped her? In the aftermath of this violent act, I turned to my writing, to my beloved siblings, to our only uncle. I was forced to look at events that led to this suicide attempt. At relationships wrecked by alcoholism. At chronic depression. At our care records. At my childhood. At my mother. At buried trauma never fully explored before. At myself ... When I much later found the picture of those surprise daffodils, I knew it was time to write about that day. I began typing the story that inspired so many of my fictional characters, that shaped the testing things they endured. My own story.
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Louise has revealed the harrowing story in which she reflects on her life and the bridge incident that shook her family to the core. 2019. Dawn. The River Humber. A misty February walk. Surprise early daffodils. A picture taken. Then forgotten. Because five hours later my world shattered. My mother jumped off the Humber Bridge. Had those yellow flowers not delayed me, I might have been there. Could I have stopped her? In the aftermath of this violent act, I turned to my writing, to my beloved siblings, to our only uncle. I was forced to look at events that led to this suicide attempt. At relationships wrecked by alcoholism. At chronic depression. At our care records. At my childhood. At my mother. At buried trauma never fully explored before. At myself ... When I much later found the picture of those surprise daffodils, I knew it was time to write about that day. I began typing the story that inspired so many of my fictional characters, that shaped the testing things they endured. My own story.
Read by Lesley Harcourt.
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