Friends, Lovers, and The Big Terrible Thing

Friends, Lovers, and The Big Terrible Thing

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is an extraordinarily open and unforgettable memoir that shares the most intimate details of the love Matthew Perry lost, his darkest days, and his greatest friends.

The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence. In a story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundstage of the most successful sitcom of all time while opening up about his private struggles with addiction.

Candid, self-aware, and told with his trademark humour, Perry vividly details his lifelong battle with the disease and what fuelled it despite seemingly having it all.

“Grimly funny, mostly unvarnished and frequently proctological… Aniston, like Keith Morrison and Perry’s eventual costar Bruce Willis, appears here as a warm, if half-sketched, character. The more Perry likes a celebrity, the less he mentions them, as if out of professional courtesy… Perry’s wryly conversational and self-deprecating style will seem familiar to Friends viewers, like a smarter version of Chandler wrote a book. He is easy to like, if prickly, and as easy to relate to as someone with multiple Banksys and a talent for repeatedly blowing up their own life could be.”  –  Allison Stewart, The Washington Post