Cleaning up : how I gave up drinking and lived / Tania Glyde.

1. The learning zone -- 2. Brits at the bar -- 3. Eighteen warning signs -- 4. The decade I would like back -- 5. Turning thirty -- 6. Eleven excuses -- 7. Half a decade of play -- 8. Women - when drink is the only solution -- 9. The final countdown -- 10. Day Zero -- 11. Day One -- 12. Getting help -- 13. Birthdays -- 14. Eight people-friendly excuses for not drinking -- 15. Welcome to my world -- 16. Trials -- 17. Twelve benefits of giving up alcohol - a final entreaty -- 18. What society could do if it really felt like it -- 19. What I miss -- 20. 101 (OK, seven) things to do with a Saturday morning.

"Imagine not drinking a bottle of wine before making a pass; not moving in like a starving cat when someone is at the bar; not apologising for something you don't remember doing. Once upon a time, Tania Glyde couldn't imagine living any other way, and to the outside world she seemed fine - despite the constant hangover from drink and drugs and the bottle of vodka stashed in her handbag." "At the end of her 23 year love affair, Tania Glyde remembers her inner white wine witch and questions our powerful sense of entitlement to drink until we fall over. Cleaning Up describes why women drink, how to stop and what life after alcohol is really like."--BOOK JACKET.