Book description
'If I'd gone to a fortune teller when I was at school and been told I'd
marry a guy who makes false teeth, move to Alice Springs, have five kids
and become a standup comedian, well, I would have been surprised, to say
the least.' With an honesty that is disarming, Austraila's funniest
mother of five, Fiona O'Loughlin, tells us how she went from country
girl to one of the country's best loved comedians. Along the way she
recounts the events that have shaped her - the warmth and happiness of
growing up in an extended family, the heartbreak of losing a close
relative, meeting the man of her dreams, the joy of raising their
children and fostering others, taking to the stage and becoming an
international success and then the realisation that alcohol was
threatening to consume her life and destroy everything that she'd worked
for. In this record of moments, events and experiences (all true, but
not always accurate) that have found her humoured, humbled, and at the
times heartbroken, Fiona recounts how she has lived, laughed and cried
on her own terms. And come out the other side smiling. A working
mother and standup comedian based in Alice Springs and Adelaide, Fiona
O'Loughlin has had successful shows at the Edinburgh and Adelaide fringe
festivals, the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal and the Melbourne
International Comedy Festival. This is her first book.
