EXCLUSIVE I start drinking straight after breakfast and carry on all day, until I pass out at night...
by the long-time editor of Good Housekeeping LINDSAY NICHOLSON Read the first extract from Lindsay's brave and raw memoir Perfect Bound By Lindsay Nicholson For The Daily Mail Published: 11:52 EDT, 30 June 2024 | Updated: 14:32 EDT, 30 June 2024 e-mail 21 shares 53 View comments The witching hour is 6pm. That’s when I turn to my most reliable lover, Mr Sauvignon Blanc. Unlike my first husband, he will never die, and unlike my second, he will never cheat on me.
Faithful and consistent, he is always there to soften the passage from day to blurry evening. These days, depression descends like a fog, putting a stop to the ceaseless activity that has ruled my life for so long. I have lived on adrenaline for months, letting it power me through divorce negotiations in 2017 with Mark, my husband of 12 years, and, shortly after, through a redundancy process that has seen me lose my job of 18 years, as editor of the best-selling lifestyle magazine Good Housekeeping.
But now that adrenaline evaporates. Sometimes I start drinking straight after breakfast and carry on all day, right through until I pass out at night. I have no need of the blind energy that drove me back to work after the death of my first husband, the investigative journalist John Merritt, in 1992.
Instead, I need to blot out all thoughts — especially when they veer towards the death of my eldest daughter Ellie, who w.
