Truths from an Unreliable Witness

Fiona O'Loughlin

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...

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