In the Blood: On Mothers, Daughters and AddictionAlcohol flows across families like water over a landscape. Sometimes it moves in torrents, sometimes in floods, sometimes in trickles. It always shapes the ground it covers in unmistakable ways.' In the Blood is a memoir in two voices, those of a mother and daughter both in the grip of the disease that has ravaged generations of women in their family. Julia, aged sixty five, and Arabella, thirty eight, ended up in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous