TY - BOOK AU - Pooley,Clare TI - The sober diaries: the brave and brilliant funny memoir that is changing lives SN - 9781473661905 AV - HV5060 .P56 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Coronet KW - Pooley, Clare. KW - Alcoholics KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - Rehabilitation KW - Mothers KW - Recovering alcoholics KW - fast KW - Autobiography KW - Autobiographies KW - Biographies KW - lcgft KW - rvmgf N2 - 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?' In a desperate bid to turn her life around, she quit drinking and started a blog. She called it Mummy Was a Secret Drinker. 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 ER -