Colleagues in the solicitors' firm where she worked regarded my client, Georgina — in her Hobbs suits, her hair swept back in a neat chignon — as a woman very much in control of her life.But though she took pains to be professional and efficient in the office, Georgina's make-up and cheery smile hid a painful secret.Each night, she went home alone and drank two bottles of pinot noir by herself. An empty-nester in her 50s, she would then call her three children to viciously criticise them and their father, whom she had divorced some years earlier. By the time Georgina reached out to me two years ago, her consumption had wreaked such devastation on her relationships with her family that she had not been invited to her youngest daughter's wedding and her older children were refusing to let her see her grandchildren.
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