Dad And Me

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Good parenting doesn't come from a textbook; it comes straight from the heart
'I don't think Dad had entirely given up on the idea of starting over ... I think he probably decided to struggle on hoping something would turn up, just as he had after his first marriage broke up, and then his second. I just don't think he planned on me being the something that turned up.' At fourteen, when Sarah Bryden-Brown's family fell apart, she went to live with her father, advertising genius and bon vivant John Bryden-Brown. trying to establish a stable household against the incoming tide of Sarah's adolescence and her dad's battle with alcohol and a third marriage gone wrong, the two of them formed a lifelong if unorthodox bond that shaped the author's life. A bittersweet story about an unlikely family unit, Dad and Me will resonate with anyone who has watched parents tumble off their pedestal and become ordinary people - flawed but lovable, and reassuringly human.

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Sarah Bryden-Brown has worked in the Australian media for more than a decade, and has been editor of Family Circle and donna hay magazine, a journalist and editor with The Australian, a columnist for The Sun-Herald, and is now editor of kidspot.com.au and Kidspot Daily. In 2003, her first book, The Lost Art of Childhood, was published. She lives in Sydney with her husband and two children.