This is not a war story. Rather, it's an effort to make sense of addiction as a condition: to see how it manifests not only in the individual but in society as a whole. Drawing on over 30 years without chemicals, Hoskyns explores the full implications of what M. Scott Peck called 'the sacred disease' and attempts to explain it from a new and holistic perspective. Pulling together strands of dependency, decadence and self-hatred - and the parallel addiction that is sexual obsession - Never Enough is profoundly personal and discursively philosophical: an extrapolation from the particular to the general that speaks to the human condition of us all. 'Elegantly written, almost poetic at times' Mail on Sunday 'Artful, intense' Q