Book description
Addicted to coke and booze and reliant on selling her body for cash,
Katie, the heroine of Clare Gee's bestselling Hooked, can no
longer cope with the life she's created for herself. She has messed up
badly and thrown everything away.
Mentally, she is an anxious wreck and physically she is in pieces.
Yet she is terrified of who she will become without her vices. She has
to do something, though, and her choices are get help or die. She
leaves London and admits herself to a residential rehab centre for
three months.
In Unhooked, reformed addict Clare Gee draws on her own
experiences of cocaine addiction, alcoholism and prostitution in
telling a moving story of a young woman battling through hell to
create a sober life for herself. There are threats of expulsion from
rehab and relapses, but through dedication and honesty, Katie begins
the long journey to becoming clean and finding peace of mind.
Clare Gee was born in Africa in 1977 and was sent to live in
Yorkshire with her English father when she was five. Aged 16, she
moved to the capital, where she descended into a life of drink, drugs
and prostitution. After a period of rehabilitation, she has rebuilt
her life in London. She is also the author of Hooked.
