A heart-breaking memoir that takes you on an emotional journey with love and resilience leading the way
This book tells the true memoir of Louisa and Robert and their time together over a number of decades. Louisa Young met Robert Lockhart at the tender age of 17 at a party, which followed on by many years of an on-off romance. During this time, both of them developed their careers and had children by different people, but were always drawn back together.
For much of Robert’s life he was addicted to alcohol and went through some very turbulent times, suffering injuries and near death experiences. Louisa loved Robert and helped him through these times, often without reciprocation, this quote really summed it up for me “he is bucket with a hole in it. I pour in love; love pours out”.
This is a heart-breaking story which really pulls at your heartstrings knowing what emotional turmoil she went through and what she did for the man she loved so much. It has really opened my eyes to the journey that people suffering with alcoholism go on and how this has a profound and devastating impact on those around them. This book will stay with me for a long time.
Did not like this book at all and cannot give any positive feedback whatsoever.
I am not able to give a positive review for this book at all and gave up half way through as did not connect at all to the main characters and actually really disliked both of them intensely. As someone who lives with an alcoholic and the disruption and chaos it causes for the family I am afraid I had little and no sympathy for the characters.