Hooked

Hooked
Author :
Publisher : Headline
Total Pages : 320
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781472282545
ISBN-13 : 147228254X
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Hooked by : Paul Merson

Download or read book Hooked written by Paul Merson and published by Headline. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2022 Sports Book Awards 'brave ... visceral ... a brilliant, brilliant read ... I would recommend this book to everyone.' Nihal Arthanayake, BBC Radio 5 Live 'so honest ... everybody should read Hooked to understand what anybody in this situation has been through.' Susanna Reid, Good Morning Britain 'a fantastic book ... a remarkable read.' Richard Madeley, Good Morning Britain 'Brave, poignant and very moving. This book will change lives.' Jamie Redknapp 'A courageous, emotional and vitally important book.' Jeff Stelling Paul Merson's wonderfully moving and brutally honest memoir of battling addiction for three decades. For twenty-one years Paul Merson played professional football. He won two First Division titles with Arsenal and was one of the finest players of his generation. But for thirty years Paul Merson has also been an addict. Alcohol, drugs, gambling: a desperately unenviable cocktail of addictions and depression which has plagued his entire adult life and driven him to the verge of suicide. 'I've come to realise that I'm powerless over alcohol ... I'm an alcoholic. My drinking and gambling have left a lot of wreckage.' Until recently the drinking and gambling were still raging. 'I wanted to kill myself. I couldn't go on anymore. I just couldn't see a way out.' Then something clicked. 'One day, I was walking home from the pub late on a Sunday evening, and I thought to myself: I've had enough of feeling like this, every day of my life. I rang up Alcoholics Anonymous the next day, and since then I haven't had a drink.' Hooked is Merson's wonderfully moving and brutally honest memoir of battling addiction, searingly charting his journey over three decades. It is absolutely unflinching in detailing his emotional and psychological troughs and in raking over the painful embers of an adult life blighted by such debilitating issues. Hooked will kick-start a crucial national conversation about addiction, depression and the damage they wreak. 'Addiction is the loneliest of places. You're a slave to insecurity and ego. But it has to be you that wants things to change. Never be afraid to talk: the more you talk about the addictions the more it takes the power out of them. You're never alone.'


Hooked Related Books

Hooked
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Paul Merson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-16 - Publisher: Headline

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Shortlisted for the 2022 Sports Book Awards 'brave ... visceral ... a brilliant, brilliant read ... I would recommend this book to everyone.' Nihal Arthanayake,
Gamble Rogers
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Bruce Horovitz
Categories: Folk musicians
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for Florida Nonfiction Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Award Beloved raconteur, environmentalist, and down-home phi
Gambling
Language: en
Pages: 259
Authors: Mike Atherton
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-09-06 - Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Gambling is a fascinating account of gambling through history, from Greek mythology and the ancient role of lots, dice and cards, to the high profile cricket an
Where Gambling Can Take You
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Joan I. Campbell
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04 - Publisher: FriesenPress

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A retired 76-year old college professor, author, mother, grandmother, wife and gambler writes about the "Positive Side" of the gaming industry which includes ho
Snowy Night with a Stranger
Language: en
Pages: 421
Authors: Jane Feather
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-28 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Warm up on a winter's night with three passionate love stories from three shining New York Times bestselling authors! Jane Feather leads an unwitting Yuletide t