After losing an acting role and fighting with her alcoholic stepfather, Kit is arrested for shoplifting and ordered to work, as part of her sentence, at an animal shelter.

Describes alcoholism, alcoholic behavior, and resulting family problems. Advises children of alcoholic parents in dealing with these problems and their own feelings and suggests ways to make life more bearable and productive.

"Hundreds of practical and effective suggestions for sobriety and recovery"--Cover.

When her partner fell into a catastrophic vortex of depression and alcoholism, Liz Fraser found herself in a relentless hailstorm of lies, loneliness and fear, looking after their young child on her own, heartbroken, mentally shattered and with no idea what was happening or what to do. As she and her family moved between Cambridge, Venice and Oxford, she kept the often shocking truth entirely to herself for a long time, trying in vain to help her...