The Blackberry Bush: A Memoir

HEATHER CARTER’S honest memoir spans six decades of her life; revealing how her painful childhood of neglect, early depression, domestic violence and alcoholism; was endured and overcome with faith and compassion.

Despite witnessing so much sadness in her life, Heather also saw the beauty. In this story of survival and transformation, she writes with vivid and humorous detail about the entangled lives of her large family, about her personal struggles with trauma and Bi Polar Disorder, and about the strange sort of peace she was able to find eventually.