A review by terryliz
Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp

5.0

I wanted to read this book after reading "Let's Take the Long Way Home" by Gail Caldwell which is a memoir of her friendship with Caroline. Gail and Caroline befriended one another in mid-life over their shared interests in dogs and literature. Only once they'd known each other awhile did they both realize they shared being recovering alcoholics.

Tragically, after her long battle with alcoholism, Caroline succumbs to lung cancer in her early 40s; but of course, she didn't know this is what she would die of when she wrote this book.

I found her story very candid and real and it made me question my own drinking habits.