Bobby Summers
Cover of I Didn't Do It For You: 365 Day Ones, by Bobby Summers. A glass of water with ice on a kitchen draining board, and a red badge reading 10% to children of alcoholics.
Out 1 December 2026

I Didn't Do It For You

365 Day Ones

A functioning engineer's memoir of hidden drinking

Water or special water.You can't tell.

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The book

A litre of gin a day. Nobody ever knew.

Nobody ever saw me drunk.

I had an engineering degree, a good job and a family. I ran the kids' football team and helped run the local Scouts. On paper, a success. Underneath, a complete cock-up. And nobody knew.

I didn't hide the drinking. I engineered it. The garage fridge. The second key fob. The glasses that looked like water. And every morning, I poured the lot down the sink and swore that was it.

Three hundred and sixty-five day ones. Then one that stuck.

This isn't a method, and it isn't a lecture. It's what really happened, all of it, the funny and the dark. It's a companion for anyone who has ever checked how much was left in the bottle before anyone else could.

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The author

About Bobby Summers

Bobby Summers is an engineer, a dad and a former functioning drinker. He stopped on 21 June 2022 and hasn't had a drink since.

Bobby Summers is a pen name. Everything in the book happened. The names have been changed to protect the people in it, not the author.

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The pledge

Ten per cent of every royalty from this book goes to Nacoa, the National Association for Children of Alcoholics. I was one.