11 Susan Juby
It will surprise many readers of Nice Recovery, Susan Juby’s frank memoir of her off-the-rails teen years, that
teens and tweens as young as 11 are experimenting with alcohol and drugs. Most pass through the phase
unscathed, but some progress into serious, life-altering addiction. Juby fell into the latter category until, at the age of 20, she took control of her
life. Her talent for writing, apparent from an early age, was key to her recovery. Her first book, Alice, I Think, a young adult novel set in her
hometown of Smithers, BC, was turned into a popular television series. She has also written Another Kind of Cowboy, inspired by her enduring
love of horses and dressage, and the 2008 bestseller, Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance and Cookery. Her
latest book, The Woefield Poultry Collective, is an adult novel that Publisher’s Weekly calls “a sweetly cockamamie tale of the emotional,
physical, and spiritual recovery of lost souls sharing a neglected farm.”
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