The Sober Diaries, Clare Pooley
The Sober Diaries, Clare Pooley
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The Sober Diaries
How one woman stopped drinking and started living.

Author: Clare Pooley

Narrator: Karen Cass

Unabridged: 10 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Coronet

Published: 12/28/2017


Synopsis

Like many women, Clare Pooley found the juggle of a stressful career and family life a struggle so she left her successful role as a Managing Partner in one of the world's biggest advertising agencies to look after her family. She knew the change wouldn't be easy but she never expected to find herself 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?'

This book is the bravely honest story of a year in Clare's life. A year that started with her quitting booze and then being given the devastating diagnosis of breast cancer. By the end of the year she is booze-free and cancer-free, she no longer has a wine belly, is two stone lighter and with a life that is so much richer, healthier and more rewarding than ever before. She has a happier family and a more positive outlook. Sober Diaries is an upbeat, funny and positive look at how to live life to the full.

Interwoven within Clare's own very personal and brilliantly comic story is research and advice as she discovers the answers to questions like: 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? If I stop drinking will I lose weight? What if my partner still drinks? And many more.

(P)2017 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

About Clare Pooley

Clare Pooley graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge and spent twenty years in the heady world of advertising before becoming a full-time mum. Clare lives in Fulham, London with her long-suffering husband, three children, dog and a cupboard filled with alcohol-free beer.Clare is the author of the hugely popular blog, Mummy was a Secret Drinker, under the pseudonym Sober Mummy.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Suz on June 05, 2019

This was a very good book written to help others. Claire has gone down a different route to her sobriety than I had ever considered! She has gone online and started a blog; where others use Alcoholics Anonymous for their journey of self discovery and sobriety. What AA members gain through meetin......more

Goodreads review by Laura on April 25, 2018

I loved this book so much. If you are recently sober it is fantastic to read the account of a first year sober. one thing which I found very good was the fact that Claire didn't have a rock bottom moment (unless it was the wine at 11am). I think that some people enjoy reading addiction memoirs to se......more

Goodreads review by Edel on January 20, 2018

This book isn’t BAD, but if you’re up for a memoir about someone moving from drinking to quitting, then Sarah Hepbola’s Blackout and Augusten Burrough’s Dry are much better - or for the more “normal person” account - Mrs. D is Going Without. The author’s small judginess was starting to wear as I app......more

Goodreads review by Emma on July 22, 2018

I'll start this review by stating that I rarely drink. There were many years when I did, and drink far too much. Then I stopped. This book is all about how Clare realises her life is infinitely better without alcohol. It's brutally honest, funny and sad all at the same time. She faces breast cancer......more

Goodreads review by Alyson on June 05, 2020

I saw Clare Pooley being interviewed on tv and asked for her book for mothers’ day. I had been unhappy with the amount I was drinking for several months, and was inspired by Clare’s success. This book could have been a hidden camera transcript of my life, if it had been a textbook there would be mor......more


Quotes

Brutally honest and sparkily funny Sunday Express

The Sober Diaries is a misconception-busting book, which draws on Pooley's extensive research. Sunday Herald