What Are You Thirsty For?

Rethinking alcohol to create the life you want

Anna Donaghey

256 pages January 2026 Copies in English Lifestyle

On behalf of: New River Books

A hugely readable, thought-provoking exploration of our relationship with alcohol. 

Anna Donaghey, former advertising exec turned alcohol mindset coach, stopped drinking six years ago when she realised that it was no longer enhancing her life.

With the trademark lightness and non-judgement that define her as a coach, she invites us in this book to take our drinking out of the cupboard and take a clear-eyed look at it. Drawing on some of the remarkable interviews with celebrities and experts from her podcast and peppered with anecdotes from her personal experience of addiction, What Are You Thirsty For? shares key insights and tools that can help get us to a place where drinking is not just a habit, or reflex, but something we do consciously, on our own terms; perhaps not every night; and checking in every now and then to make sure that it is something that truly makes us happy.

It’s about learning to love how to drink less.

This isn’t a how-to book, it’s a what-if book, designed to help us have an honest conversation with ourselves and provide food for thought.