Friends, addiction and repeated attempts at recovery dominate Matthew Perry’s memoir Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing. Friends is a major part of the story, but the book spends at least as much time on alcohol, prescription drugs, hospitalisation, relationships and the contrast between professional success and private instability. Perry writes in a blunt, self-deprecating voice, often moving rapidly between jokes and descriptions of serious medical consequences. The memoir is not a behind-the-scenes history of the sitcom alone and does not present recovery as a simple upward path. The clearest marketplace links are celebrity memoir, addiction and recovery writing, television autobiography and personal accounts of fame’s inability to solve compulsive behaviour. Read more Less
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