Millie Gooch Audiobooks

The Sober Girl Society Handbook: a warm, practical guide to drinking less

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Who is Millie Gooch?

Sobriety writing has changed a great deal, and the shelf Millie Gooch occupies is the friendly end of it: the handbook rather than the confession, addressed to anyone curious about drinking less rather than convinced they have hit the bottom of something. Our catalogue files The Sober Girl Society Handbook under health and wellbeing, and the title lays out its terms plainly enough.

The word handbook is doing real work there. It signals something to be consulted rather than merely admired, organised around situations any listener will recognise: the wedding, the work drinks, the friend who keeps topping up the glass. Society points at the other half of the proposition, which is company. Gooch narrates the audiobook in person, and that choice tells you the register was always meant to be conversational rather than clinical.

Millie Gooch in audiobooks

Seven hours and a quarter, read by Millie Gooch, which for a wellbeing title is worth noting: advice of this kind lands differently when the voice belongs to whoever wrote it. This is a scheduled arrival rather than a title already sitting on the shelf, so the panel below carries the current position.

Come to it if the question in your head is what an evening actually looks like without a drink in hand, rather than whether you have a problem. It is pitched at the sober-curious and the newly sober alike, and the handbook shape means it can be dipped back into later without starting again from the beginning. Have a look at what is listed underneath.