Book Review: Not a memoir, an intoxication

Memories are often hard to retrieve at the best of times. But when alcohol contaminates, distorts and then washes away entire chunks of life, the prospect of digging into "the mille-feuille of experience", as Adrian Gill describes it, might seem like an impossible challenge. And yet in this chilling, exquisitely moving book, Gill defines the seductive, addictive and destructive power of drink.