Drinking: A Love Story

When a friend lent me a stack of books a few months ago I skimmed through the titles and quickly relegated this one to the bottom of the pile, its title and subject matter conjuring up images of spiritually reborn Americans admitting they had a drinking problem and subsequently learning to love themselves and others in true Ricki Lake style.

When eventually I ran out of other reading matter and picked this up I did so with extremely low expectations and …