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Barbara Best-McNarry |
07 Nov 2007
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 George Best’s sister on growing up with a football legend and coping with his alcoholism.
He was a sportsman whose skills, film star looks and champagne lifestyle brought showbiz glamour to football in the 1960s. But it was George Best’s love of the highlife that proved to be his downfall. Two years after his death, his sister Barbara joins Jenni to discuss her new family memoir. What was it like growing up with one of the world’s best known sportsmen? And how did she cope with the alcoholism that claimed his life, and contributed to their mother’s death?
Our George: A family memoir of George Best, by Barbara Best-McNarry with Lindy McDowell, is published by Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-230-53027-0George Best Foundation
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