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Title:
The Erratics
Written by:
Vicki Laveau-Harvie 
Read by:
Vicki Laveau-Harvie 
Format:
Unabridged CD Audio Book 
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Duration:
5 hours 58 minutes 
Published:
August 01 2019 
Available Date:
August 01 2019 
Age Category:
Adult 
ISBN:
9781460780800 
Genres:
Non-fiction; Memoirs 
Publisher:
Bolinda/HarperCollins audio 
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Bestseller
Award winning author

Winner Stella Prize 2019
Shortlisted NSW Premier's Literary Awards / Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction 2019
Winner Finch Memoir Prize 2018

Dark, sharp, blackly funny and powerful, this is memoir, wielded as weapon, with the tightly compressed energy of an explosive device.

'We've been disowned and disinherited: there's not changing it, I say. When something bad happens to them, we'll know soon enough and we'll deal with it together. I don't realise it at the time, but when I say that, I imply I care. I imply there may be something to be salvaged. I misspeak. But I'm flying out anyway. Blood calls to blood; what can I tell you.' This is a memoir about a dysfunctional family, about a mother and her daughters. But make no mistake. This is like no mother-daughter relationship you know. When Vicki Laveau-Harvie's elderly mother is hospitalised unexpectedly, Vicki and her sister travel to their parents' isolated ranch home in Alberta, Canada, to help their father. Estranged from their parents for many years, Vicki and her sister are horrified by what they discover on their arrival. For years, Vicki's mother has camouflaged her manic delusions and savage unpredictability, and over the decades she has managed to shut herself and her husband away from the outside world, systematically starving him and making him a virtual prisoner in his own home. Vicki and her sister have a lot to do, in very little time, to save their father. And at every step they have to contend with their mother, whose favourite phrase during their childhood was: 'I'll get you and you won't even know I'm doing it.' A ferocious, sharp, darkly funny and wholly compelling memoir of families, the pain they can inflict and the legacy they leave, The Erratics has the tightly coiled, compressed energy of an explosive device – it will take your breath away.

'The Erratics grabbed me by the throat and never let go ... There is a universality to the story, of ageing parents and conflicted children grappling with uncomfortable responsibilities. I loved it.'
Caroline Baum

'If someone had told me this manuscript was by a young Margaret Attwood or Alice Munro, I wouldn't have been surprised.'
Candida Baker