Going Under, Seana Smith
Going Under, Seana Smith
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Going Under
A memoir of family secrets, addiction and escape

Author: Seana Smith

Narrator: Seana Smith

Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/03/2024

Synopsis

From the outside, Seana Smith lived an enviable life. An Oxford graduate, a successful career with the BBC and Sydney’s Channel 9, a bestselling author, happily married. But behind this perfect life she had a secret: Seana was a drinker, and alcohol was slowly taking away her life, destroying her health, her emotional well-being, her world. 

With engaging style and wit, Going Under reveals the true story behind Seana’s lifelong battle with drink. It lays bare a confusing childhood of Scottish sailing adventures and also brutal violence from her bullying, alcoholic father; where punches were thrown, broken bones hidden and her family lived in fear.

Learning from the best, Seana drank her way through tutorials at Oxford University (which were held in the pub), through the sexual misadventures of her twenties and through the intensity and mundanity of motherhood. 

It took the death of her parents and a tree-change to Orange in regional NSW for Seana to find the courage to break free; a new life in a new world. She had finally left the past behind.

About Seana Smith

Seana Smith is the author of Sydney for Under Fives and the co-author of The Australian Autism Handbook, Beyond the Baby Blues and The Superfoods Index. She studied Latin, Greek and Old and Mediaeval English at Wadham College, University of Oxford before coming to Australia and becoming a best-selling author and well-followed blogger on family and health issues. Read her writings at Hello Sydney Kids and Swim The World.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kylie on July 04, 2019

A total eye-opener, Going Under brings to light the pressures junior doctors have to endure. It's the story of young intern Dr Kitty Holliday, and her journey through her first year in a training hospital in Sydney. The scary truth is a lot of the novel is based on fact, the bullying, belittling and......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on November 28, 2019

After finally finishing medical school Dr Katarina (Kitty) Holliday couldn’t believe her luck when she landed a job at one of Sydney’s best teaching hospitals. All her hard work had paid off and her dream was really coming true. Kitty can hardly contain her excitement when she finds out she’s to beg......more

Goodreads review by Suz on September 01, 2022

I was very impressed with this book and enjoyed it immensely. Having read another recent fiction title written by a doctor, The Registrar, I found this one to be much more engaging, humorous, candid, serious and propelling. This was edge of your seat reading. The acknowledgements state the author in......more

Goodreads review by Lotte on October 08, 2019

I picked this up under the incorrect assumption it was non-fiction; while disappointed, I was glad to learn that it was written by a doctor, suggesting the medical side of things would be portrayed accurately. While the window into the medical side of things was well written and interesting, I felt......more

Goodreads review by Janine on November 22, 2019

This book has such an important message to tell but was overshadowed by too much sex & alcohol! I’m a nurse, I get it, we also used alcohol & partying no doubt to medicate what we saw, treated & cared for in highly stressed environments at such a young age. It just was too focused on it. Also didn’t......more

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