Mayhem /
by Rausing, Sirgrid.
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BookPublisher: UK : Hamish Hamilton, 2017Description: 199 pages ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780241259269 (hbk.) :; 0241259266 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 362.293 RAUSubject(s): Rausing, Eva -- Drug abuse | Rausing, Hans K. -- Drug abuse | Rausing, Eva -- Death and burial | Rausing, Sirgrid -- Family | Drug addiction | Drug addicts | Health and Fitness | Health and WellbeingSummary: In the summer of 2012 a woman named Eva was found dead in the London townhouse she shared with her husband, Hans K. Rausing. The couple had struggled with addiction for years, often under the glare of tabloid headlines. Now, writing with singular clarity and restraint, Hans's sister, the editor and publisher Sigrid Rausing, tries to make sense of what happened.Mayhem is an eloquent and timely attempt to understand the conundrum of addiction, and a memoir that is as poignant and riveting as it is devastating.
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| 362.2923 MCM Bottled up: | 362.2928 WAR Caring for someone with an alcohol problem | 362.293 MAC Dopesick : dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted America / | 362.293 RAU Mayhem / | 362.2933 BUR Mum, can you lend me twenty quid? : what drugs did to my family / | 362.3092 RYA Justice for Laughing Boy : Connor Sparrowhawk, a death by indifference / | 362.353 VUL Vulnerable adults and community care |
Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
In the summer of 2012 a woman named Eva was found dead in the London townhouse she shared with her husband, Hans K. Rausing. The couple had struggled with addiction for years, often under the glare of tabloid headlines. Now, writing with singular clarity and restraint, Hans's sister, the editor and publisher Sigrid Rausing, tries to make sense of what happened.Mayhem is an eloquent and timely attempt to understand the conundrum of addiction, and a memoir that is as poignant and riveting as it is devastating.
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