When I had a little sister : the story of a farming family who never spoke /
by Simpson, Catherine, (Fiction writer).
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BookPublisher: London : 4th Estate, 2019Description: 372 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780008301637 (hbk.) :; 0008301638 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 362.2809 SIMSubject(s): Simpson, Catherine, (Fiction writer) -- Family | Suicide victims | Suicide victims -- Family relationships | Health and Fitness | Health and WellbeingSummary: On a cold December day in 2013 Catherine Simpson received the phone call she had feared for years. Her little sister Tricia had been found dead in the farmhouse where she, Catherine and their sister Elizabeth were born - and where their family had lived for generations. Tricia was 46 and had been stalked by depression all her life. Yet mental illness was a taboo subject within the family and although love was never lacking, there was a silence at its heart. After Tricia died, Catherine found she had kept a lifetime of diaries. The words in them took her back to a past they had shared, but experienced so differently, and offered a thread to help explore the labyrinth of her sister's suicide.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Book - Adult Hardback | Crosby Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 362.2809 SIM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 002964651X |
On a cold December day in 2013 Catherine Simpson received the phone call she had feared for years. Her little sister Tricia had been found dead in the farmhouse where she, Catherine and their sister Elizabeth were born - and where their family had lived for generations. Tricia was 46 and had been stalked by depression all her life. Yet mental illness was a taboo subject within the family and although love was never lacking, there was a silence at its heart. After Tricia died, Catherine found she had kept a lifetime of diaries. The words in them took her back to a past they had shared, but experienced so differently, and offered a thread to help explore the labyrinth of her sister's suicide.
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