From Whiskey To Water

All Books are second hand
Sam Cowen
9781920601720

“My name is Samantha and I’m an alcoholic.
“At the time of writing, I’ve been sober for 13 years, 11
months and 16 days. And yes I still count. I promised I
would never speak about it publicly until my children
understood what that meant, that mommy was an alcoholic.
I think they may have understood long before I did.”
From Whiskey to Water is the no-holds-barred memoir by
one of South Africa’s most loved radio talk show hosts, Sam
Cowen. Having kept her alcohol addiction well away from
the public eye for over 14 years, in this tell-all tale, Sam finds
the courage to talk about her struggle with her addiction
to whiskey, food and finally to a passion that saved her
life – marathon swimming. Told in her characteristically
hilarious dead-pan style, this is one of the bravest books
you’ll read this year.
“So this is a book on how I stopped drinking? No, it’s
not. It’s how I stopped drinking, started eating, became
clinically severely obese, stopped eating (everything that
wasn’t nailed down) and swam my way to freedom. No, it’s
not. It’s actually about addiction and learning and sadness
and anxiety and love and drive. It’s about channelling the
unchangeable into the miraculous. It’s about dragons and
learning how to put them to sleep when you can’t slay them.
It’s about being my own Daenarys.”