The Alcohol Years

Carol Morley returns to Manchester where in the early 1980s five years of her life were lost in an alcoholic blur The Alcohol Years is a poetic retrieval of that time in which rediscovered friends and acquaintances recount tales of her drunken and promiscuous behavior In Morleys search for her lost self conflicting memories and viewpoints weave in and out revealing a portrait of the city its pop culture and the people who lived it