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By stephanie - Posted on 13 October 2010

Here is a review that just got posted on Amazon today - I am so humbled, and emboldened. Please share this book!  

I Dare You To Put It Down!

Uplifting, chilling, funny and humane, Stephanie Hubbard's memoir is a bold, beautiful page turner. Spare, filmic chapters reveal a childhood dominated by a charismatic and narcissistic father whose single-minded self-absorption makes him a danger to his family and an unforgettably compelling character for the reader. Compelling too is young Stephanie's attempts to survive her childhood, win her father's love, mend her broken family and, when grown, to numb her pain with copious amounts of alcohol. Filled with well-observed, searing moments, Bluff Island Rescue Service comes from a place of hard won emotional truth. Better than any book I have ever read, it shows what dysfunction does to a child, how it plants the seed of future dysfunction and how it can be triumphantly overcome. Do not miss this book!

Bluff Island Rescue Service is about Growing Up

Bluff Island Rescue Service is the true story about my relationship with my larger than life, brilliant and sometimes brutal father.  

 The story begins against the backdrop of sailing in the Thousand Islands and travels across oceans, continents and decades in this fast paced psychological adventure.  

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