Blood Line: Sometimes Tragedy Is in Your Blood. Julie Shaw

      

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      All names and identities have been changed in this memoir, to protect both the living and the children of those who have died. Some changes have been made to historical facts for the same reason.

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      First published by HarperElement 2014 as My Uncle Charlie This edition 2018

      © Julie Shaw and Lynne Barrett-Lee 2014

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      Source ISBN: 9780007542260

      Ebook Edition © February 2018 ISBN: 9780007542277

      Version: 2018-07-09

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       The Final Countdown

       Note by the Author

       Hudson Family Tree

       Prologue

       Part One

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Part Two

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Epilogue

       Glossary

       Acknowledgements

       Exclusive sample chapter

       Further titles in this series

       Moving Memoirs eNewsletter

       Write for Us

       About the Publisher

The Final Countdown

      Slouched, you slowly shuffle, unsure where you’ll safely sleep,

      Hood hitched close, hiding your head as you falter down High Street,

      Weather beaten face and weary eyes, no longer a welter weight,

      A punch bag, a punk, a parasite now, you care not to ponder your fate.

      The bottle, the bag, the