Things in Every Room

About the book

An intimate and beguiling memoir about what we keep behind the doors of the past, how it haunts the present and what it takes to make sense of it all.
'Beautifully considered' Sophie Elmhirst
'A revelatory true story about love in all its forms' Dizz Tate
Helen Longstreth's chaotic childhood: the relentless cycle of her father's alcoholic relapses, the six kids coming and going, the apologies and uncertain forgiveness, the meals that bring the family back together again. But while she is studying in America, the land of her parents' birth, her father dies - and it all comes to an abrupt end.
In the years that follow, she is drawn back to America and another world of chaotic love and alcoholic madness, dying fathers and lost boys. The same problems in a...