Truths from an Unreliable Witness - Fiona O’Loughlin, Alley Pascoe

Written by Fiona O’Loughlin, Alley Pascoe
Read by Fiona O’Loughlin
Format: M4B
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Unabridged

Truths from an Unreliable Witness: Finding laughter in the darkest of places
By: Fiona O’Loughlin, Alley Pascoe
Narrated by: Fiona O’Loughlin
Release date
27-10-2020
Language
English
Format
Unabridged Audiobook
Length
6 hrs and 12 mins
Publisher
Hachette Australia
Categories
Biographies & Memoirs

Fiona O’Loughlin was raised in the generation of children who were to be seen, but not heard … unless there were guests in the house. Then she’d watch everyone, telling stories, making each other laugh. This was where she discovered the rhythm of stories and the lubrication that alcohol leant the telling. Years later, as a mum of five, Fiona would become one of Australia’s most-loved comedians, performing gigs in New York, Montreal, Singapore, London, Toronto and Edinburgh. Fiona looked like she was living her dream - but she was hiding a secret in open sight, using alcoholism as material for her comedy and using comedy as an excuse for her alcoholism.

Truths from an Unreliable Witness is a fiercely honest and wryly funny memoir of melancholy, love, marriage, the loss of love and marriage, homelessness, of hotel rooms strewn with empty mini-bar bottles of vodka, of waking from a two-week coma, of putrid drug dens and using a jungle to confront yourself. It is about hitting rock bottom and then realising you are only halfway down. Ultimately, it’s about hanging on to your last straw of sanity and finding laughter in the darkest of times. You may want to sit down for this…