A Tipsy Fairy Tale

A Coming of Age Memoir of Alcohol and Redemption

By: Peter E. Murphy

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Paperback | 7 November 2024

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In the wake of his mother's passing, Peter Murphy's childhood plunged into chaos. Suffering from neglect, abuse, and a lack of stability, he endured a series of hardships. Murphy was kidnapped at gunpoint, broke half a dozen ribs in a freak accident, and found himself indebted to the Mafia. While as a young teen he turned to painkillers and alcohol to cope, he also developed an unexpected affinity for poetry that eventually transformed his life.

This memoir is a coming-of-age tale that follows Murphy's journey as he deciphers the grief, shame and loss that permeated his childhood. Still a young man, he left the violence of New York for the bloodstained streets of Northern Ireland during the height of The Troubles. As he unraveled the mystery surrounding his mother's death, he reached his lowest point living in a Welsh commune, with little hope of escaping the throes of substance abuse. Written with poetic insight, Murphy's story is one of redemption, recovery, and finding faith in hardship.

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"Anyone who has spent more than a few minutes with Peter Murphy knows that, in addition to him being the most interesting person in the room, his life story must be a mix of epic, legend, and fairy tale. As it sketches Murphy's soul-searching travails across the Atlantic, his memoir captures the wonders of a generation through the details of a life lived with humility, forbearance, and plenty of humor. Murphy writes with the candor of a man who has struck a truce with his demons and taken poetry for his spiritual practice. The result is proof that any life can be a fairy tale as long as we don't insist on learning the moral before the story ends."-Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author of Air Traffic, A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America

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