Glorious Rock Bottom

'A shocking story told with heart and hope. You won't be able to put it down.' Dolly Alderton

Author: Bryony Gordon

Bryony Gordon is a respected journalist, a number-one bestselling author and an award-winning mental health campaigner. She is also an alcoholic. This is a sobriety memoir like no other, and the newest book by the acclaimed author Bryony Gordon.

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DARK, HONEST, UPLIFTING. THIS IS A SOBRIETY MEMOIR LIKE NO OTHER.

'This is a book that tears down walls.' Marian Keyes

'Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer whose razor-sharp honesty slices through every sentence of this compelling memoir.' Liz Day

'Poetic, raw and very important.' Fearne Cotton

Bryony Gordon is a respected journalist, a number-one bestselling author and an award-winning mental health campaigner. She is also an alcoholic.

In Glorious Rock Bottom Bryony opens up about a toxic twenty-year relationship with alcohol and drugs and explains exactly why hitting rock bottom - for her, a traumatic event and the abrupt realisation that she was putting herself in danger, time and again - saved her life. Known for her trademark honesty, Bryony re-lives the darkest and most terrifying moments of her addiction, never shying away from the fact that alcoholism robs you of your ability to focus on your family, your work, your health, your children, yourself. And then, a chink of light as the hard work begins - rehab; twelve-step meetings; endless, tedious, painful self-reflection - a rollercoaster ride through self-acceptance, friendship, love and hope, to a joy and pride in staying sober that her younger self could never have imagined.

From the author of Sunday Times bestselling Mad Girl and Mad Woman, shining a light on the deep connection between addiction and mental health issues, Glorious Rock Bottom is in turn, shocking, brutal, dark, funny, hopeful and uplifting. It is a sobriety memoir like no other.

Critic Reviews

“Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer whose razor-sharp honesty slices through every sentence of this compelling memoir. - Liz DayPoetic, raw and very important. - Fearne CottonIt is my favourite of Bryony's books. - Dolly AldertonThis book will make us all kinder, brighter and better. - Daisy BuchananThis is a book that tears down walls. It will make sobriety attractive and accessible in a way it never has before. - Marian Keyes”

Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer whose razor-sharp honesty slices through every sentence of this compelling memoir. - Liz Day

Poetic, raw and very important. - Fearne Cotton

It is my favourite of Bryony's books. - Dolly Alderton

This book will make us all kinder, brighter and better. - Daisy Buchanan

This is a book that tears down walls. It will make sobriety attractive and accessible in a way it never has before. - Marian Keyes

Brutally honest - Daily Mail

Gordon's new book is a frank, sometimes wince-inducing and often very funny look at her 20-year relationship with booze. - INews

Bryony Gordon has penned a compelling, candid sobriety memoir - Independent

About the Author

Bryony Gordon writes a column in the Daily Mail and is the host of the podcast The Life of Bryony. She previously wrote for the Telegraph for twenty-three years, becoming one of the paper's best loved writers, and hosted the Mad World podcast. She is the author of the bestselling The Wrong Knickers and Mad Woman, plus the Sunday Times Number One bestsellers You Got This and Mad Girl, which were both nominated for British Book Awards. In 2016 she founded Mental Health Mates, now a global peer support network which encourages people with mental health issues to connect and get out of the house. In 2017 she won the MIND Making A Difference Award for her work in changing the perception of mental health in the media. In 2018 she ran the London Marathon in her underwear. In 2020, she won the Journalists' Charity Award from the Society of Editors for mental health campaigning, and in 2023 she was a recipient of the Royal College of Psychiatrists President's Medal for improving the lives of people with mental illness.

She lives in South London with her husband and daughter.

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DARK, HONEST, UPLIFTING. THIS IS A SOBRIETY MEMOIR LIKE NO OTHER. 'This is a book that tears down walls.' Marian Keyes 'Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer whose razor-sharp honesty slices through every sentence of this compelling memoir.' Liz Day 'Poetic, raw and very important.' Fearne CottonBryony Gordon is a respected journalist, a number-one bestselling author and an award-winning mental health campaigner. She is also an alcoholic. In Glorious Rock Bottom Bryony opens up about a toxic twenty-year relationship with alcohol and drugs and explains exactly why hitting rock bottom - for her, a traumatic event and the abrupt realisation that she was putting herself in danger, time and again - saved her life. Known for her trademark honesty, Bryony re-lives the darkest and most terrifying moments of her addiction, never shying away from the fact that alcoholism robs you of your ability to focus on your family, your work, your health, your children, yourself. And then, a chink of light as the hard work begins - rehab; twelve-step meetings; endless, tedious, painful self-reflection - a rollercoaster ride through self-acceptance, friendship, love and hope, to a joy and pride in staying sober that her younger self could never have imagined.Shining a light on the deep connection between addiction and mental health issues, Glorious Rock Bottom is in turn, shocking, brutal, dark, funny, hopeful and uplifting. It is a sobriety memoir like no other.