Booze: The Story of One Love | Caroline Knapp

"Booze: The Story of One Love" is a frank and honest chronicle of the life of Caroline Knapp, a seemingly successful young journalist, about her long-term relationship with alcohol, which lasted more than twenty years.

It was love at first sight. Drops of moisture on a long-lasting bottle. The sound of glasses and the flow of conversation. Then love turned into obsession: how she secretly hid bottles behind her lover's refrigerator; how she got up from the table and quietly crept into the bathroom; as she walked straight to the bar from work. And then, as in many other love stories, everything fell apart.

Caroline first tasted alcohol at the age of fourteen. She drank throughout her university studies at the Ivy League, and then throughout her successful career as an editor and columnist, for which she received numerous awards. In public, Caroline Knapp was a dutiful daughter and a polished professional. In loneliness - drank to oblivion.

This startlingly candid memoir reveals the author, family myths, and the destructive relationships that alcohol often creates. This is a love story for all time: full of passion and heartbreak, betrayal and desire, a story of overcoming the pain and deception that characterize life with alcohol addiction.