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High Sobriety - My Year without Booze (Paperback, New)
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High Sobriety - My Year without Booze (Paperback, New)
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Discovery Miles 4 330
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'I'm the binge-drinking health reporter. During the week, I write
about Australia's booze-soaked culture. At the weekends, I wrote
myself off.' Booze has dominated Jill Stark social life ever since
she had her first sip of beer, at 13. She thought nothing could
curb her love of big nights. And then came the hangover that
changed everything. In the shadow of her 35th Year, Jill made a
decision- she would give up alcohol. But what would it mean to stop
drinking in a world awash with booze. This lively memoir charts
Jill's tumultuous year on the wagon, as she copes with the stress
of the newsroom sober, tackles the dating scene on soda water,
learns to watch the footy minus beer, and deals with censure from
friends and colleagues, who tell her that a year without booze is
'a year with not mates'. In re-examining her habits, Jill also
explores Australia's love affair with alcohol, meeting
alcopop-swigging teens who drink to fit in, beer-seilling blokes in
a sporting culture backed by booze, and marketing bigwigs blamed
for turning binge drinking into a way of life. And she tracks the
history of this national obsession- from the idea that Australia's
new colonies were drowning in drink to the Anzac ethos that a beer
builds mateship, and from the six o'clock swill that encouraged
bingeing to the tangled weave of advertising, social pressure, and
tradition that confronts drinkers today. Will Jill make it through
the year without booze? And if she does, will she go back to her
old habits, or has she called last drinks? This is a funny, moving,
and insightful exploration of why we drink, how we got here, and
what happens when we turn off the tap. 'A frank, entertaining, and
at times confronting glimpse of what Australia might look life with
a hangover.' Annabel Crabb
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