Coventry To Comber

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In 1990 at twenty-three years old Mark Francis O'Sullivan was drinking himself toward an early grave. Vodka for breakfast blackouts that erased entire weekends and a growing certainty that if he didn't stop alcohol would kill him. So he quit-cold turkey. No rehab no Alcoholics Anonymous no professional help. Just fear isolation and determination. That was thirty-five years ago. He hasn't had a drink since.</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Coventry to Comber</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is a raw honest account of addiction and long-term recovery told from a working-class perspective rarely seen in traditional sobriety books. Born in Coventry to Irish parents O'Sullivan grew up feeling overwhelmed out of step and unable to explain why life felt harder for him than for others. Years later he would discover the reason: undiagnosed autism and ADHD and a brain that never switched off. Alcohol wasn't about pleasure-it was self-medication.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>This book follows his journey from chaotic drinking and lost potential through the hardest early days of sobriety and into the long ongoing work of rebuilding a life without alcohol. It explores identity shame temptation grief and the challenge of staying sober in a culture where drinking is normal and expected.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Each chapter blends lived experience with reflection and practical insight offering tools readers can use whether they are newly sober struggling after years without drink or still trying to find the courage to stop. There are no slogans no preaching and no claim that there is only one right way to recover.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>This book is for those who never quite fitted the recovery mould-for people who tried AA and felt like outsiders for neurodivergent readers who drank to cope with overload and for anyone who knows their drinking can't continue but doesn't know where to begin.</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Coventry to Comber</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> doesn't promise miracles. It offers something better: understanding honesty and proof that sobriety is possible-even when it doesn't feel like it.</span></p>