
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE' An intense succulent read that's intermittently dazzling' THE TIMES' Chilling exquisitely moving' DAILY TELEGRAPH'A superb memoir
- & one of the best books on addiction I have ever read' EVENING STANDARDA A Gill's memoir begins in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers He is an alcoholic dying in the last-chance saloon He tells the truth
- as far as he can remember it
- about drinking & about what it is like to be drunk He recalls the lost days lost friends failed marriages But there was also an 'optimum inebriation a time when it was all golden' Sobriety regained there are painterly descriptions of people & places unforgettable musings about childhood & family art & religion; & most movingly the connections between his cooking dyslexia & his missing brother Full of raw & unvarnished truths exquisitely written throughout POUR ME is about lost time & self-discovery Lacerating unflinching uplifting it is a classic about drunken abandon