The Million-Rand Teaspoon: A True Story of Addiction and Redemption

✍ Scribed by Ridley, Nikki

• Book ID: 109944133
• Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 296 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781770222632

✦ Synopsis

When I saw Lee cook up the paregoric, strap the tourniquet around her arm and put the needle into her vein, I was instantly captivated by a ritual that would eventually come to dominate my existence. But of course I didn't know that then. I just wanted to try it.' – Paul Bateman

'I will never forget that little teaspoon. It was the only remaining item left in Paul's flat in Durban when I went there with my wife to see what Paul had done. The only thing left. Not even a fork, or a knife or a cup to go with it. A teaspoon. Other than the clothes on his back, it was the only material thing that Paul had left in the world.' – Mark Bateman

'When we visited, we could hear him screaming even before we got out of the car. He was going through withdrawal, even in his comatose state, and that is when we first knew for certain that he could never have got clean if this hadn't happened. He could never have got through that fully awake and aware and in control of himself. He...