The Sober Diaries: The Brave and Funny Memoir that is Helping People to Quit Drinking
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The Sober Diaries: The Brave and Funny Memoir that is Helping People to Quit Drinking
<p><b>A bravely honest and brilliantly comic account of how one mother gave up drinking and started living. This is Bridget Jones Dries Out.</b></p><p>Clare Pooley is a Cambridge graduate and was a Managing Partner at one of the world's biggest advertising agencies, and yet by eighteen months ago she'd become an overweight, depressed, middle-aged mother of three who was drinking more than a bottle of wine a day, and spending her evenings Googling 'Am I an alcoholic?'</p><p>In a desperate bid to turn her life around, she quit drinking and started a blog. She called it <i>Mummy Was a Secret Drinker</i>.</p><p>This book is the story of a year in Clare's life. A year that started with her quitting booze having been drinking more than a bottle of wine every day. It sees her starting a hugely successful blog, then getting and beating breast cancer. By the end of the year she is booze free and cancer free, two stone lighter and with a life that is so much richer, healthier and more rewarding than ever before. <i>Sober Diaries </i>is an upbeat, funny and positive look at how to live life to the full. </p><p>Interwoven within Clare's own very personal and frank story is research and advice, and answers to questions like: <i>How do I know if I'm drinking too much? How will I cope at parties? What do I say to friends and family? How do I cope with cravings? Will I lose weight? What if my partner still drinks? </i>And many more.</p>