Will I love Wishful Drinking?

Though her style has always struck me as danger-close to tabloid and disjointed, nobody ever said those traits couldn't result in coffee-through-nostrils hilarity and knockout via punchline.

Fisher's particular brand of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll certainly didn't help with her bipolar management. All the same, her unhinged lifestyle did deliver a bevy of dramatic and somewhat instructive anecdotes.  

She captures the chaos with such wit and bite in Postcards from the Edge and Shockaholic, but if you have to choose just one book, go with Wishful Drinking.

And you thought you found middle age challenging? 

Imagine being a former movie icon, recovering addict, single mother, married to one of the world’s most famous musicians, having Elizabeth Taylor as a stepmother, and waking up with your best friend dead in the bed next to you. 

Carrie Fisher writes like she’s sitting next to you at a dinner party, and you will be spellbound by every single word. 

Her wry humour is so witty, it will come back to you time and again at moments you least expect.