--- product_id: 4598249 title: "Drinking: A Love Story" price: "₱1905" currency: PHP in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/4598249-drinking-a-love-story store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # Drinking: A Love Story **Price:** ₱1905 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Drinking: A Love Story - **How much does it cost?** ₱1905 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/4598249-drinking-a-love-story) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Drinking: A Love Story [Knapp, Caroline] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Drinking: A Love Story Review: ONE of the MOST WELL WRITTEN MEMOIRS - This is one of my favorite book. If you’re struggling with alcoholism or know someone who is, this book offers beautiful insight into a deeply confusing topic. The authors vulnerability and authenticity shines, and it’s incredibly well written. A beautiful read. Review: Amazing insight into living with our deepest feelings - This is a quiet but very powerful book. It is written by a professional woman (journalist) to record her long struggle with alcohol. It gives an amazing, in-depth insight into the thinking and feelings behind such an addiction. She is brutally honest about the ravages of living with an addiction - morning hangovers, always trying to get a drink, driving drunk, passing out, waking up in a strange bed with men and not knowing what happened that evening/night, always trying to sneak a way to get enough to drink. She strictly maintained some rules for herself - like never drinking at work - that allowed her to keep up her professional life and convince herself that she was not an alcoholic, only a heavy drinker. (The amount of alcohol is astonishing.) But what is most powerful in the book is how she manages, in retrospect, to see the WHY of drinking: to quell the anxiety and to stifle uncomfortable feelings. She points that out repeatedly as she examines different stages of her life. And it IS a love story in the sense that she truly loved to drink, particularly in the early years when a drink or two relaxed her and made everything warm and comfortable - no social anxiety, no worries, no inadequacies. Unfortunately that stage doesn't last long - it takes more and more booze to quiet things down and the result leaves havoc in its wake. Imagine having to inspect your car fenders in the morning to make sure you didn't hit or kill someone driving home in a drunken haze! Many alcoholics have "cross addictions" - pills, pot, eating disorders, dysfunctional relationships. These too give you the illusion of control and killing unwanted feelings. She went through several years of severe eating disorders - that too helped to deaden her feelings, and most of her relationships were a disaster. Gradually, by examining all those feelings that she was so terrified of she comes to see what she is trying to kill with alcohol. She is from a family of professionals who were cool and aloof. Underneath that calm was anger and unhappiness. She learned early not to show feelings though she longed for a connection with them and their approval. She truly loved her parents and their deaths from dreadful cancers at first spirals her into much heavier drinking (if that is possible) but finally helps her toward recovery. This is an amazingly insightful book about living with the types of feelings we all dread. It gives insight into the disease and even for those not dealing with addictions in themselves or those close to them, the penetrating analysis of how we humans deal with feelings is the best part of the book. After I read it I wanted to know more about Caroline Knapp. So I Googled her and was very touched by what I found. I won't spoil anything for you but there is another book (about her, not by her) that you will want to get! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #32,936 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #66 in Alcoholism Recovery #165 in Women's Biographies #491 in Memoirs (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,905 Reviews | ## Images ![Drinking: A Love Story - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71xkXg10D2L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ONE of the MOST WELL WRITTEN MEMOIRS *by A***R on February 21, 2026* This is one of my favorite book. If you’re struggling with alcoholism or know someone who is, this book offers beautiful insight into a deeply confusing topic. The authors vulnerability and authenticity shines, and it’s incredibly well written. A beautiful read. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazing insight into living with our deepest feelings *by P***A on May 5, 2011* This is a quiet but very powerful book. It is written by a professional woman (journalist) to record her long struggle with alcohol. It gives an amazing, in-depth insight into the thinking and feelings behind such an addiction. She is brutally honest about the ravages of living with an addiction - morning hangovers, always trying to get a drink, driving drunk, passing out, waking up in a strange bed with men and not knowing what happened that evening/night, always trying to sneak a way to get enough to drink. She strictly maintained some rules for herself - like never drinking at work - that allowed her to keep up her professional life and convince herself that she was not an alcoholic, only a heavy drinker. (The amount of alcohol is astonishing.) But what is most powerful in the book is how she manages, in retrospect, to see the WHY of drinking: to quell the anxiety and to stifle uncomfortable feelings. She points that out repeatedly as she examines different stages of her life. And it IS a love story in the sense that she truly loved to drink, particularly in the early years when a drink or two relaxed her and made everything warm and comfortable - no social anxiety, no worries, no inadequacies. Unfortunately that stage doesn't last long - it takes more and more booze to quiet things down and the result leaves havoc in its wake. Imagine having to inspect your car fenders in the morning to make sure you didn't hit or kill someone driving home in a drunken haze! Many alcoholics have "cross addictions" - pills, pot, eating disorders, dysfunctional relationships. These too give you the illusion of control and killing unwanted feelings. She went through several years of severe eating disorders - that too helped to deaden her feelings, and most of her relationships were a disaster. Gradually, by examining all those feelings that she was so terrified of she comes to see what she is trying to kill with alcohol. She is from a family of professionals who were cool and aloof. Underneath that calm was anger and unhappiness. She learned early not to show feelings though she longed for a connection with them and their approval. She truly loved her parents and their deaths from dreadful cancers at first spirals her into much heavier drinking (if that is possible) but finally helps her toward recovery. This is an amazingly insightful book about living with the types of feelings we all dread. It gives insight into the disease and even for those not dealing with addictions in themselves or those close to them, the penetrating analysis of how we humans deal with feelings is the best part of the book. After I read it I wanted to know more about Caroline Knapp. So I Googled her and was very touched by what I found. I won't spoil anything for you but there is another book (about her, not by her) that you will want to get! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very worth the read if you wonder whether you or someone you know has a drinking problem *by A***N on January 17, 2026* I'd like to leave a more detailed review but don't have the time. Others have already done a great job of that anyway. Suffice to say I found this book very touching and affecting, especially knowing the tragedy of the author getting sober after going through hell, and dying within 5-6 years of lung cancer at only 42. Even as a regular smoker, for that to happen to her at such a young age, after such travail, is very sad. I assume the person she calls Michael in the book is really the long-time partner Mark she finally married just before expiring. More poignancy. I don't understand the negative comments regarding how she characterizes AA. Nor the ones dismissing her as privileged and narcissistic. These seem to me to totally miss the point of how this affliction can affect anyone. I took off one star only because it is true that it is very repetitive, often. Could have used some editing. Still worth reading. Hope you are in a good place Caroline ! 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