Welsh Drinkers

It has been said the Welsh livers and kidneys are quite unlike those of the rest of the human race - which is just as well, because drinking is as much a Welsh institution as rugby and music. This book features four famous Welsh tipplers whose lives fell apart - Richard Burton, Dylan Thomas, Rachel Roberts and Sir Anthony Hopkins, who was the only one of them that managed to conquer his addiction. Alcoholism is the only disease that tells you that you don't have a problem - and when you're an actor or a poet, you can turn the problem into something beautiful. This book examines how they coped with celebrity as their lives became ruled by the demon drink.