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The erratics / Vicki Laveau-Harvie.

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616.85 LAVE	Adult Non Fiction	Double Bay	. On Loan .	27 Apr 2024
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Field name	Details
Record Number	809310
ISBN	9781460758250 (paperback)
Author	Laveau-Harvie, Vicki author.
Title	The erratics / Vicki Laveau-Harvie.
Publisher/Date	Sydney, N.S.W. : 4th Estate, 2019.
Publisher/Date	©2018
Pagination etc.	217 pages ; 21 cm.
Summary Note	When her elderly mother is hospitalised unexpectedly, Vicki travels to her parents' isolated ranch home in Alberta, Canada, to help her father. She has been estranged from her parents for many years (the reasons for which rapidly become clear) and is horrified by what she discovers on her arrival. Her mother has always been mentally unstable, but for years camouflaged her delusions and unpredictability. Over the decades she has managed to shut herself and her husband away from the outside world. Vicki's father, who has been systematically starved and kept virtually a prisoner in his own home, begins to realise what has happened to him and embarks upon plans of his own to combat his wife. Vicki quickly realises how dangerous, and potentially life-threatening, her mother's behaviour is. She fears for her father's life and her own safety if her mother returns home. The power play between her parents takes a dramatic turn and leaves Vicki embroiled in situations that are ludicrous, heart-breaking, and frightening. All this makes for an intensely gripping, yet black-humoured family drama that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Subject - Name	Laveau-Harvie, Vicki
Subject - Name	Laveau-Harvie, Vicki -- Family
Subject	Families -- Canada
	Family secrets
	Mothers -- Mental health -- Canada
	Mentally ill -- Family relationships
	Adult children -- Australia -- Biography
	Mentally ill mothers -- Biography
	Dysfunctional families
	Aging parents -- Care -- Canada
	Autobiographies.
Shelf Location	616.85 LAVE

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