Princess Leia’s Wishful Drinking

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Carrie Fisher is best known for her role in Star Wars as the irate, nubile, bun-headed Jabbaslave called Princess Leia.

What’s not as well known is that she’s also the author of Postcards from the Edge, which was later adapted into the award winning all-star Oscar-nominated dramafest film of the same name (with Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman and Annette Benning, to name a few).

Also, she’s bi-polar. And she’s a drug addict. And she used to be married to Paul Simon. She’s no stranger to the nuthouse. Her mom was a fruitcake. And she had a baby with a top Hollywood agent who subsequently left her for a man. And… well, there’s enough weirdness to fill a whole book.

It’s all of these things, and her attempts to clarify them that has led her to write a funny and yet ultimately very sad book about herself titled Wishful Drinking. Many of Fisher’s previous works of fiction have given an almost awkward insight into the traumatised state of mind of the author, but this is the first time she’s delved into the subject of self in a direct non-fiction memoir.

Fisher is a consumate wordsmith, and as she subtly puns in the book, “I heard someone once say that we’re only as sick as our secrets. If that’s true, then this book will go a long way to rendering me amazingly well.”

Whether you’ve read her book, seen her films or followed her slow-motion, three-lane car-wreck of a life, this book is certainly going to tell you perhaps a little more than you wanted to know about this fate-blasted woman.

Get it on Amazon, or Exclusive Books Online.