In this beautiful edition of her combined memoirs, Wishful Drinking and Shockaholic, we celebrate the life and work of Carrie Fisher, in her own words.

With a Foreword by Rob Delaney.

In her first memoir, Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher told the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit. Born to celebrity parents, she was picked to play a princess in a little movie called Star Wars when only 19 years old. ‘But it wasn’t all sweetness and light sabres.’ Aside from a demanding career and her role as a single mother (not to mention the hyperspace hairdo), Carrie also spent her free time battling addiction and weathering the wild ride of manic depression.

By the time Carrie wrote her second memoir, Shockaholic, it had been a roller coaster of a few years. The electro-convulsive shock therapy she was undergoing was threatening to wipe out her memory. She lost her beloved father, but also her once-upon-a-very-brief-time stepmother, Elizabeth Taylor, as well as over forty pounds of unwanted flesh, all the while staying sober and sane-ish.

Wishful Drinking and Shockaholic are laugh-out-loud funny, acerbic, and witty as hell. But they also reveal a new side of Carrie Fisher that may even bring a pleasant shock your way: they are contemplative, vulnerable, and ultimately, quite tender. From the woman who took us to space and back, we bring you the compiled memoirs of Carrie Fisher, the woman, mother, daughter, and of course, Princess.

‘[Shockaholic] is the finest, funniest chronicler of the maddest celebrity mores’ – The Sunday Times

‘Wishful Drinking is a touching and incisive account of bipolarity, addiction and motherhood.' – Independent