Farewell to the Father

Author(s): Timothy Elliott

Memoir

"Tim Elliott's story - on his father and love against the odds - will split your heart open." Benjamin Law Towards the end of his first serious suicide attempts, my father said the strangest thing to me...Growing up in 1970s Sydney, Tim Elliott had a loving stay-at-home mum, a professional father, three siblings, a private school education and endless opportunities to fish and surf at the nearby beaches. But this was not the idyllic childhood it appeared. A charismatic, well-respected doctor by day, Tim's father became a roaring madman at night. The house was our castle, and Dad was our king. He was an unpredictable king, tyrannous and moody, lethal one day, loving the next. This is an extraordinary memoir of growing up with a parent afflicted by mental illness: a complex elegy, powerfully told, loaded with love, rage and surprising humour. It is about the lengths children will go to protect themselves - and their families - from shame or harm, and how adapting to that adversity becomes and intractable part of who we are as adults.

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Tim Elliott is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in publications all over the world, including London's Financial Times and Sunday Times. He is currently a senior writer at the Sydney Morning Herald. He is the author of two previous books, The Bolivian Times (2001), and Spain by the Horns (2005) and lives in Sydney.

General Fields

  • : 9781743537893
  • : Pan Macmillan Australia
  • : Macmillan Australia
  • : May 2016
  • : 233mm X 154mm
  • : May 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Timothy Elliott
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : 336