My Mother's Ghost (Hardcover) by Fergus M Bordewich

9780385491297. New condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 326. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 326 p. In this luminous memoir of his mother's tragic death, the author reveals how this devastation reshaped the emotional landscape of his childhood and adult life. For all practical purposes his childhood was over at age 14, and following his father into a life of despair and drink, at 27 Fergus was close to suicide. This beautifully written account is about Bordewich's attempt to rediscover his mother's place in his heart.