Profile: Margaret Searle

About This Author

Margaret Searle originally trained as a home economist and food chemist working for major food companies, where she successfully developed new recipes for production. She left work to have her first child, loving motherhood so much that she decided to be a home-maker rather than a working mum. Whilst expecting her fourth child she began studying for her degree, majoring on English Literature and the Social Study and History of Society, gaining her B.A. in 1992. She has been director of a property management company and run a successful genealogical research service. She is currently helping her eldest daughter set up her own company. She and her husband Keith live in East Sussex. Since the death of her son she has written this book giving a graphic insight into her family’s experience of alcoholism in the hope that it will help others in a similar predicament and perhaps will kick start and underline the need for more help by the authorities in this area. She also hopes her book will give a different and more understanding perspective of the alcoholic.