The Sober Diaries

How One Woman Stopped Drinking and Started Living

By: Clare Pooley

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

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, no longer has a wine belly and 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.

©2017 Clare Pooley (P)2017 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

An amazing book

Get this in audio book, not only you will hear her lovely Slightly posh London accent but every kind of accent she perfectly impersonates but also how funny and witty she sounds. A great book for someone contemplating sobriety, trying to cut back or dealing with cancer who wants to see everything in a more humorous way. I couldn’t read “the naked mind “ because it was so preachy and judgmental, but this was the opposite. Claire is brilliant!

Must read!

Must read for ANYONE who drinks alcohol! Especially women! It is an honest account of the authors journey, very moving and I can see myself in her journey

inspiring.

Clare set out to make a difference and she has, to me. thank you for this book.

This book is life-changing.

If you are struggling at all with the amount of wine you drink. This is your book. I have never written a review, but this book has been life-changing for me. Clare Pooley is simply the best. (Thank you, Clare!)

I am her!

This was eye opening, hilarious, inspirational and the final kick in the bum I needed. I related to most issues she had 100% and I see things differently now. I’m 2 weeks sober!

The Sober Diaries is a terrific read! Cheers Clare!

Thank you for writing this book. So insightful and even more, incredibly helpful in normalizing my feelings about addiction and drinking. Your heartfelt story was inspiring and great fun to read.
Thank you again.
Warm regards,
Amanda

Perfect Book

I absolutely loved this book. I very much relate to Clare and appreciate her honesty and humor. Her story needed to be told. Moms like me need for her story to be told.

Amazing book!

Absolutely love Clare's way of telling her story, she is witty, smart, loving and super fun to listen to! She has given me many insights about drinking, and I'm truly grateful to her för sharing her story with us all. Read it! ❤

Oh boy! This really hits home.

I loved the British humor! I’m not a mum so I generally get bored with mum stories, but I didn’t, I laughed, listened and stayed present all the way to the end, in fact I couldn’t turn it off. Im done, no more wine oh clock for me! Thank you Clare Pooley for exposing yourself…you’ve helped another soul wake up to their life. I highly recommend this book.

Really great audiobook

I almost never give five stars to a book or take the time to write a review but I wanted to say how much I enjoyed this book. It was entertaining, moving, funny and just very well written and read.