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Book review: Two Sisters memoir a stark, raw and melancholic account of a complicated family life

Poet and novelist Blake Morrison had one sister who died after 30 years of alcoholism and another from suicide, here he attempts to excavate the self-destructive forces that led to the deaths of Gill and Josie

Blake Morrison: the anger he felt at how his sister Gill’s drinking affected their parents is tempered now with a sense that he should have done more to help her. Picture: Getty