High Sobriety: my year without booze

Booze dominated Jill Stark’s social life ever since she had her first sip of beer at 13, until, after a hangover at 35, she made the decision to 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 ...