This novel explores the perils of addiction, and is very addicting itself. Poor Mary. She is such a self-induced hot mess. I really liked her and had a lot of hope for her. She battles so many things in this book--wanting love, wanting to bury pain from personal loss, wanting success, stability,and maybe even normality. The problem is, she wants the bottle more! When she doesn't have resolution to the fulfillment in these areas, she seeks to numb herself with booze. Mary meets a co-dependent soul in Jake, her new British boyfriend. Jake needed recovery too--and permission to release himself from his co-dependency. I feel like I went through recovery & slipped again, just by reading Nina's book. Doesn't help that I work in the human services field; and read about addiction's power over its victims. I wanted to set up my "listening couch" to bring them in & try to help them work through stuff. Oy! A compelling read. 4 stars
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