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This brutally honest book tells the story of the "tangled fairy-tale triangle" that took shape between Julia Blackburn and . After her parents divorced when she was 12 years old, Julia's mother took in a succession of male lodgers.

This brutally honest book tells the story of the "tangled fairy-tale triangle" that took shape between Julia Blackburn and her parents: poet, alcoholic and barbiturate-addict father and painter mother Rosalie who saw her daughter as sister, confidante and eventually a sexual rival. When one of them started an affair with her daughter, Rosalie was devastated, and when he finally committed suicide the bond between mother and daughter spiralled into hatred.

The Three of Us book. The three of them in the Blackburn family were Thomas Blackburn, poet, her alcoholic and occasionally violent father; Rosalie de Meric, painter, her unconfident, jealous, nymphomaniac mother; and Julia, their only daughter, caught in the middle.

Everything we think we know about families and sex and mother-daughter relations is called into question as Blackburn's unsparing eye is joined by her remarkably . The Three of Us is a jungle populated with sparring creatures

Everything we think we know about families and sex and mother-daughter relations is called into question as Blackburn's unsparing eye is joined by her remarkably open heart. -Carol Gilligan, author of In a Different Voice and Kyra: A Novel. The Three of Us is a jungle populated with sparring creatures. During a fight, Blackburn's father says of her mother that she is "scarcely human. Blackburn's narrator appears to believe this of everyone, including herself: she often compares people to animals, and she focuses on how each family member has a primal urge driving him or her.

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Yet The Three of Us is not set in that depressing populist mould. Julia Blackburn has revisited the melodramatic hell her mother and father created, and has found it an all too recognisably human place. Her father, so contemptuous of the women to whom he was attracted, was invariably kind to her, teaching her poetry and answering the barrage of questions she put with the respect due to her intelligence. She was never threatened by him, as she was by Rosalie who, after her divorce from Thomas, was transformed into the kind of landlady perhaps only Strindberg could have imagined. Her male lodgers were hand-picked and required to display their skills in the bedroom.

Julia Blackburn reminds us that, whatever has happened to us and whatever our mind has made of it, forgiveness and the unconditional love that are our birthright are always there to be reclaimed. The Parents From Hell. Published by Thriftbooks

Julia Blackburn reminds us that, whatever has happened to us and whatever our mind has made of it, forgiveness and the unconditional love that are our birthright are always there to be reclaimed. Published by Thriftbooks. com User, 11 years ago. This is the season for memoirs of dysfunctional parents. First Miranda Seymour published "Thrumpton Hall" of her English upbringing with her eccentric father. Then Doris Lessing created "Alfred and Emily" of her parents, complete with an alternative history of them. Now Ms. Blackburn has written of her family.

A rival to K2 in the multipeaked landscape of domestic chagrin, it recalls Edward Gorey’s bleak faux-Victorian cartoon book The Hapless Child.

Julia Blackburn (born 1948) is a British author of both fiction and non-fiction. Julia Blackburn's bohemian and troubled upbringing is the subject of her memoir The Three of Us (2008). My Animals and Other Family (2007).

Julia Blackburn (born 1948) is a British author of both fiction and non-fiction Julia Blackburn's bohemian and troubled upbringing is the subject of her memoir The Three of Us (2008). The Three of Us: A Family Story (2008). Thin Paths: Journeys In and Around an Italian Mountain Village (2011). Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske (2015). Printed Matter – Julia Blackburn – Page.

The three of us. a family story. Published 2008 by Pantheon Books in New York This is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas; and her mother, Rosalie. Published 2008 by Pantheon Books in New York. This is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas; and her mother, Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic who for many years was addicted to barbiturates, which would often make him violent. Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and flirtatious; she treated Julia as her sister, her confidante, and eventually as her deadly sexual rival. After Julia's parents divorced, her mother took in lodgers, always men, on the understanding that each would become her lover. This is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn, her father Thomas and her mother Rosalie. Blackburn has written an exceptionally perceptive and fascinating book, a tribute by a remarkable daughter to the resilience of filial love". Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic, who for many years was addicted to barbiturates; Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and flirtatious. After her parents were divorced, Julia's mother took in lodgers, always men, on the understanding that each should become her lover. A stunningly written memoir".