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Nothing Good Can Come from This

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Nothing Good Can Come from This

By: Kristi Coulter
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Kristi Coulter inspired and incensed the internet when she wrote about what happened when she stopped drinking. Nothing Good Can Come from This is her debut audiobook--a frank, funny, and feminist essay collection by a keen-eyed observer no longer numbed into complacency.

When Kristi stopped drinking, she started noticing things. Like when you give up a debilitating habit, it leaves a space, one that can’t easily be filled by mocktails or ice cream or sex or crafting. And when you cancel Rosé Season for yourself, you’re left with just Summer, and that’s when you notice that the women around you are tanked—that alcohol is the oil in the motors that keeps them purring when they could be making other kinds of noise.

In her sharp, incisive debut essay collection, Coulter reveals a portrait of a life in transition. By turns hilarious and heartrending, Nothing Good Can Come from This is perfect for anyone who has ever stood in the middle of a so-called perfect life and looked for an escape hatch.

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One of the best sober reads ever.
Clever, witty, truthful and utterly devoid of self pity.
Highly recommend

Outstanding

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Wonderfully honest insight into the struggles of coming to terms with the fact you have a drinking problem.
I really enjoyed hearing this from the point of view of a successful woman.

Honest and inspiring

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Really enjoyed listening to this book. Wasn't sure about the accent at first but as it is authentic and the author's, I quickly got over that. Makes you feel privileged to have a peek inside someone else's struggle to become sober. Very real and very interesting.

A great listen!

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I loved that this wasn't preachy and wasn't giving advice, it just presented the author's experience, which really resonated with me. This is not an "I sank so low I was in the gutter" memoir but a story of how a person who on the surface was a success nonetheless had to come to terms with the fact that her drinking was doing her no favours. Listened to the whole thing twice.

Really resonated with me

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Brilliant, a book I’ll listen to again! The essay style is great because you get lots of little stories intertwined.

Absolutely fantastic

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