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 One the major themes of the latest volume of Campbell’s diaries is his son Calum’s descent into alcoholism and subsequent recovery.

Across many compelling passages, Campbell reveals how worried he was about his boy, who refused to be helped and spiralled out of control. Writer's Room What Happen'S Here Gose in My Next Book Poster

“He’s been through a lot, his drink problem developed, probably from his teens, but then accelerated when he was at university and so it became pretty chronic in his early 20s,” Campbell says.

Given his own alcoholism, was Campbell able to steer his son to help or was he able to be a support to him?

“Not as much as I would like. I think that I made a lot of mistakes with him that people made with me when I was struggling with drinking.

“Because it’s so hard, it’s so, so hard to give that advice unless people want it,” Campbell says, adding that, for a long time, Calum didn’t want it.

Campbell says he blames himself for his son’s alcoholism as he tells of his agony at shutting his drunk 21-year-old child out of the family home.

Having been advised to administer “tough love”, Campbell recounts the night when he closed the front door on Calum, who had returned home drunk. He says it was the hardest decision of his life.

“It was a very, very horrible thing to have to do. If anything had happened to him I would never have forgiven myself. After Calum staggered off into the night, I slid down the door and put my head in my hands, rocking like a child, weeping.

“We spent the whole night not knowing where he was, if he’d got into trouble, fallen into the canal... And the worry that this had created a thing between us. That was very, very painful. I felt helpless.”

The book details how Calum was convinced to seek help at a rehab facility in Wicklow, Toranfield House. The process was not an easy one for Calum or his father.

“I was probably more depressed than I realised, and Calum had said a few very blunt things which made me low for a few days after the Skype sessions with Miriam Finnegan [counsellor] in Ireland.

“I sensed he saw me as the source of a lot of his problems, which was harsh in a way but he maybe had a point,” he recounts in the book.

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