EPISODE · Sep 3, 2024 · 3 MIN
Going Under: A memoir of family secrets, addiction and escape by Seana Smith
from Top Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs · host Lenny Little
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/793732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Going Under: A memoir of family secrets, addiction and escape Author: Seana Smith Narrator: Seana Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From the outside, Seana Smith lived an enviable life. An Oxford graduate, a successful career with the BBC and Sydney’s Channel 9, a bestselling author, happily married. But behind this perfect life she had a secret: Seana was a drinker, and alcohol was slowly taking away her life, destroying her health, her emotional well-being, her world. With engaging style and wit, Going Under reveals the true story behind Seana’s lifelong battle with drink. It lays bare a confusing childhood of Scottish sailing adventures and also brutal violence from her bullying, alcoholic father; where punches were thrown, broken bones hidden and her family lived in fear. Learning from the best, Seana drank her way through tutorials at Oxford University (which were held in the pub), through the sexual misadventures of her twenties and through the intensity and mundanity of motherhood. It took the death of her parents and a tree-change to Orange in regional NSW for Seana to find the courage to break free; a new life in a new world. She had finally left the past behind.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/793732 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Going Under: A memoir of family secrets, addiction and escape Author: Seana Smith Narrator: Seana Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: From the outside, Seana Smith lived an enviable life. An Oxford graduate, a successful career with the BBC and Sydney’s Channel 9, a bestselling author, happily married. But behind this perfect life she had a secret: Seana was a drinker, and alcohol was slowly taking away her life, destroying her health, her emotional well-being, her world. With engaging style and wit, Going Under reveals the true story behind Seana’s lifelong battle with drink. It lays bare a confusing childhood of Scottish sailing adventures and also brutal violence from her bullying, alcoholic father; where punches were thrown, broken bones hidden and her family lived in fear. Learning from the best, Seana drank her way through tutorials at Oxford University (which were held in the pub), through the sexual misadventures of her twenties and through the intensity and mundanity of motherhood. It took the death of her parents and a tree-change to Orange in regional NSW for Seana to find the courage to break free; a new life in a new world. She had finally left the past behind.
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