Dimensions
135 x 216 x 19mm
A timely look at our culture's obsession with binge drinking and drug abuse.
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. She wondered whether she had a problem, but so many people drank more and as a clock-watching 6pm-er who hardly ever threw up in public, by general standards she was fine - despite the constant hangover and the bottle of vodka stashed in her handbag.
At the end of a 23-year love affair with alcohol, Tania Glyde remembers her inner white wine witch. Exposing the culpability of the drinks industry, the enabling qualities of hard-core drugs and our powerful sense of entitlement to drinks until we fall over. Cleaning Up examines a moral panic of our time, exploring why women drink, how to stop and what life after alcohol is really like.
