Amanda Uhle had a recurring dream as a child. She would open the windows and purge her house of excess: canned goods and stockpiled scrap fabric went out the window. Jars of cinnamon were dumped on the kitchen floor. Dozens of shampoo bottles were emptied on the rug. This wasn't about instilling order it was, she explains, about upending the disorder in which she existed. Her mother was an obsessive hoarder – a compulsion that drove the family into debt and Uhle to the brink of despair. Read more about her mother's 'dark obsession' at Daily Mail #news #booktok #books