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When You're Not Ok - A Toolkit for Tough Times (Hardcover): Jill Stark When You're Not Ok - A Toolkit for Tough Times (Hardcover)
Jill Stark
R399 R374 Discovery Miles 3 740 Save R25 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
High Sobriety - My Year without Booze (Paperback, New): Jill Stark High Sobriety - My Year without Booze (Paperback, New)
Jill Stark
R459 R433 Discovery Miles 4 330 Save R26 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'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

High Sobriety - my year without booze (Paperback, New edition): Jill Stark High Sobriety - my year without booze (Paperback, New edition)
Jill Stark
R400 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R35 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'I'm the binge-drinking health reporter. During the week, I write about Australia's booze-soaked culture. At the weekends, I write myself off.' Booze had dominated Jill Stark's 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 no 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-swilling 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.

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