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Mum, Can You Lend Me Twenty Quid?

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780749951726

Price: £9.99

ON SALE: 7th February 2008

Genre: Biography & True Stories / Biography: General

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Elizabeth Burton Phillips is a teacher, an ordinary middle-class mother who had always tried to do the best for her children; she never imagined that her identical twin sons, who had been doing so well at school, would become involved in drugs. She was shocked when they were suspended from school for smoking cannabis; but this was just the start of a terrible, unimaginable journey – culminating in the knock on the door in the early hours by the police. They gave her the devastating news that her son Nick had killed himself in despair at his heroin addiction.Since his death, Elizabeth has campaigned tirelessly to make parents aware of the pain and suffering caused to families by drug addiction; and her surviving twin, Simon, now drug-free, has contributed his own thoughts to this inspiring and moving book.

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It reinforces the message that I have had to learn the hard way, namely that sometimes, in order to help your loved ones, you have to sever your links with them
Mrs Moneypenny, FT Magazine
the most frightening, truthful, courageous account of a middle-class family's descent into hell
Judith Woods, The Daily Telegraph
A moving, frightening story
Belfast Telegraph
I would urge all parents, teachers and pupils to read this heart-rending book
Anthony Seldon, Headmaster, Wellington College
a book that is moving and ultimately, inspiring
Waterstones Books Quarterly