In Hell's House is not a make-believe world, but mostly the real life story of the writer Andrea Higgins, who was born into a toxic family and grew up in a toxic environment. Her parents, both alcoholics, fought day and night worse than cats and dogs. As far back as she could remember, all day, they would be smoking, drinking and fighting the time away. From witnessing her parents' abusive relationship to living in a stifling household, to her family turning away their back in crucial times to being bullied for reasons that were nothing but a harsh reality to meeting a terrible end and escaping it and then going through all over again, to many more conflicts, the author has narrated it all in this book