Changing my mind
Record details
- ISBN: 1554685389
- ISBN: 9781554685387
- ISBN: 9780062064875 (hc.)
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Physical Description:
382 p., [48] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins, c2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
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Subject: | Trudeau, Margaret -- 1948- Manic-depressive persons -- Canada -- Biography Prime ministers' spouses -- Canada -- Biography Canada -- Biography |
Genre: | Autobiography. Autobiography. |
Available copies
- 24 of 24 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 24 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | B Trud (Text) | 33294001746577 | Biographies | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
In this deeply moving memoir, Margaret Trudeau speaks with candour and insight about the illness that silently shaped her life -- a life lived often in turbulence and in the public's fascination. Plagued since childhood by extreme moods, Margaret was ill-prepared for the high-profile role into which she was cast at age twenty-two, as Canada's youngest first lady. Captivated by her high spirits, youth and beauty, Canadians fell in love with Margaret, just as they had with her charismatic husband, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, three years earlier. When their first son, Justin, was born on Christmas Day and their second son, Sacha, on the same day two years later, this couple seemed almost enchanted. But away from the cameras and the public appearances, and increasingly isolated at 24 Sussex Drive, Margaret struggled with a growing depression offset by bouts of mania. Her behaviour seemed inexplicable to many -- including to herself -- and two years after the birth of their third son, Michel, the marriage broke down.