Columnist and author, Bryony Gordon knows what it’s like to hit rock bottom - and to bounce back. Following a twenty-year relationship with alcohol and drugs, she tells Claire Newell why becoming a mother gave her the strength she needed to turn her life around, and to reinvigorate her career.

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