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  • Location: Dublin

Bright Burning Things

Bright Burning Things

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2000s: A pitted track of addiction and recovery…

  • ISBN: B08HWGNFZP
  • Genre: Crime

What you need to know before your trail

Being Tommy’s mother is too much for Sonya.

Too much love, too much fear, too much longing for the cool wine she gulps from the bottle each night. Because Sonya is burning the fish fingers, and driving too fast, and swimming too far from the shore, and Tommy’s life is in her hands.

Once there was the thrill of a London stage, a glowing acting career, fast cars, handsome men. But now there are blackouts and bare cupboards, and her estranged father showing up uninvited. There is Mrs O’Malley spying from across the road. There is the risk of losing Tommy – forever.

Travel Guide

The real setting here is addiction

The setting of this story is character driven and firmly in the middle of the battle of addiction.

Dublin might be the city, but the story sadly happens in every city and in every country.

If you have never experienced addition or the fall out from addiction, you are about to learn about it. Some very graphic and demanding reading here.

BookTrail Boarding Pass: Bright Burning Things

Destination/location: Dublin  Author/guide: Lisa Harding  Departure Time: 2000s

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