Woman, trashed - Joanne Brodie X relationships and career success are

relationships and career success are of no real value unless they are meaningful

Having joined the police as a 16-year-old cadet

' THE TIMES'His writing has the no-nonsense

beloved father

Little do they realize that their hidden lives and emotions will soon be revolving around the same man - or that the coming war will change the boundaries of both their worlds for ever

Woman, trashed - Joanne Brodie X relationships and career success areSuburban, middle class, and from a good family this is what makes Joanne Brodie's story all the more shocking. It is the dual account of the relentless seduction of the impulse to self destruct and, at the same time, the human spirit's desperate desire to survive. Brodie is unremittingly honest in recounting a life that saw her take the deceptively easy and palliative path that leads to prescription drug addiction and the ripple effect of its