Recovering

By
Richie Sadlier
Gill
 Winner of the An Post Irish Sports Book of the Year Award

Longlisted for The William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award

'Not only the sports book of the year, the book of the year.' Paul
Howard

'Unputdownable,' The Last Word, Today FM

'You'll go a long way to find a better autobiography. It's raw,

unfiltered honesty from start to finish, a captivating account of one
man's story that will resonate with so many more.' The Irish
Independent

'The bravest book I've read in a long time. A really quality read
written by a man who happened to be a footballer rather than a book
necessarily about football.' Damien O'Meara, RTE
'Storytelling of the highest calibre. Richie Sadlier's autobiography is
a judiciously layered and thoughtful examination of how to live a
life and develop as a person despite everything. It's also relentlessly
entertaining. A rare and precious example of a sports book that has
both story and stories in abundance.' Malachy Clerkin, The Irish
Times

'The kind of book to stop you in your tracks.' The Irish Farmers
Journal

When a career-ending injury saw former Ireland and Millwall

striker Richie Sadlier retire from football at age 24, his life spiraled
out of control. Without structure or a sense of purpose, and fueled
by a dependency on alcohol, he spent years running from the dark
memories and feelings that had haunted him since childhood. Until
one day, he hit rock bottom and decided to confront his demons.

Now a successful soccer pundit, psychotherapist and mental-fitness

teacher, Recovering is about a life shaped by efforts to escape, and
how it is possible to rebuild a life, piece by piece, with the right
help. Inspiring and groundbreaking, it is an important reflection on
the need to move away from perceptions of shame in our
discussions about mental health, sex, relationships and addiction.

Gill
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