Wishful Drinking Book

Carrie Fisher has written four novels full of hilarious and outrageous tales. Or they seemed like novels at the time. Reading her autobiography Wishful Drinking it soon becomes clear how little in those novels , especially the most well known Postcards From The Edge, was actually fiction.
Wishful Drinking is the true tale of what it was like to be the child of good old-fashioned Hollywood royalty - her parents were Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. In less than 170 pages she races through the craziness of a movie world childhood, her father running off with Elizabeth Taylor, becoming a cultural icon in Star Wars, marrying and divorcing Paul Simon, waking up next to a dead body and having a child with a man who "forgot to tell me he was gay. Well, he forgot to tell me, and I forgot to notice." Throw in drug use, alcoholism, breakdowns and bi-polar disorder and you get some idea of the breathless ride the reader is in for. The writing is feverish, self-deprecating and often laugh out loud witty but in the honest, naked recollections of the down times it is also heartbreaking and totally lacking in self-pity.
Most readers will devour this book in a couple of hours but that doesn't mean it feels insubstantial. The wit and intelligence of Carrie Fisher have a habit of popping back into your head for days afterwards and don't be surprised if you find yourself buying spare copies of Wishful Drinking ready to drop into the pocket of any friends in need of a dose of life-affirming and infectious humour.

Carrie Fisher's first ever memoir revealing the truth about what it's "really" like to grow up in Hollywood coming of age on the set of "Star Wars" and becoming a cultural later life including battling her addictions and manic depression her marriage and divorce of Paul Simon and waking up one morning to find her friend dead beside her in bed.