Hello, I’m Seana Smith
Welcome to my website.
My quit lit memoir ‘Going Under’ is out now
With a tender touch, Smith contemplates the two truths of her childhood: the wild island adventures and the brutal eruptions behind closed doors. Standing on the precipice of her own alcoholism, she realises that reckoning with the past is the only way to shape the future.
Jenny Valentish
Author of Woman of Substances
Going Under is funny, insightful and inspiring. This is like hanging out with a really brilliant friend who, you know, will make you a better person.
Seana Smith is the real deal – a truth-teller and a writer of immense integrity.
Kathryn Heyman, Author of Fury
Buy Going Under
In Australia: Going Under is available in bookshops and online stores in Australia and on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com.au/Going-Under-memoir-secrets-addiction/dp/0645497231/
In the USA: https://www.amazon.com/Going-Under-memoir-secrets-addiction/dp/0645497231/
In the UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Going-Under-memoir-secrets-addiction/dp/0645497231/
Going Under Audiobook: Going Under on Audible, narrated by Seana Smith, click here.
Going Under on Spotify: Listen to Going Under on Spotify here.
On this website you will find writing on all my favourite subjects:
- my published books
- podcasts
- alcohol-free adventures
- ocean swimming
Swim The World – My Swimming Stories
- Best places to swim in various cities around the world
- Why swimming is so good for us
- Australia’s best ocean swimming
- Swimming pools and hotel pools
Alcohol-free adventures
- best sobriety books
- Non-alcoholic drinks to enjoy
- Our sober journey stories
The Publisher & The Writer Podcast
Find podcasts and show notes covering all aspects of writing and publishing books in Australia.
With sparkling, musical prose and unflinching generosity of spirit, Seana Smith lays bare the facts of a life stalked by alcohol. A life that ricochets ‘between privilege and terror, between adventure and fear.’
So much more than a book about the booze, Going Under is an intricate, often beautiful mosaic of family, the individuals caught inside its sharp-edged cracks, and the self yearning to make sense of all it all. The story of a woman emerging from the brokenness of the past and the never-ending pressures of the present to reclaim joy.
Honest. Tender. Laugh-cry funny. Walking with Seana through her year of Going Under is to make a new and wise friend.
Kim Kelly, author of Ladies’ Rest and Writing Room
Latest stories
Where To Swim In London: Best Indoor + Outdoor Pools
Walking The Last 200 km of the Camino de Santiago: A Fab Trip!
Shellharbour Swimming Pool: The Fabulous Beverley Whitfield Ocean Pool + an extract from my memoir
Leesa Ronald on Romcom Writing & Publishing
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I must introduce my wee poodle Maisie who is crucial to writing, swimming, podcasting, to life!!