Hold Me Close, Let Me Go: A Mother, a Daughter, and an Adolescence Survived

Author's account of coping with the traumatic adolescence of her daughter Morgan. At 13 Morgan starts drinking, doing drugs and failing at school, with Adair at a loss to discipline her. At the same time, Adair also has to deal with the reappearance of her father who abandoned the family decades earlier. Morgan's behaviour revives memories of Adair's own strong-willed adolescence, and ironically it is from her distant father that she receives the best advice for coping with Morgan. This Australian edition includes a foreword by Bronwyn Donaghy, author of 'Anna Wood', 'Leaving Early' and other books on teenagers and parenting.Lara, Adair is the author of 'Hold Me Close, Let Me Go: A Mother, a Daughter, and an Adolescence Survived', published 2002 under ISBN 9780732274993 and ISBN 0732274990.