Sober Diaries : The brave and brilliantly funny memoir that is changing lives...

Sober Diaries : The brave and brilliantly funny memoir that is changing lives, Paperback by Pooley, Clare, ISBN 1473661900, ISBN-13 9781473661905, Brand New, Free shipping in the US<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><br><br>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?'<br><br>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>.<br><br>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. <br><br>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>