FBF: Ruby Wax in Conversation

Few careers have taken as many unexpected turns as Ruby Wax’s. From the Royal Shakespeare Company and the anarchic heights of 1990s television to encounters with presidents, dictators and Hollywood royalty, she became one of the most distinctive and fearless interviewers of her generation. Behind the quick-fire wit and larger-than-life persona, however, lay a recurring struggle with depression that would eventually lead her away from celebrity television and towards the serious study of the human mind.

In this wide-ranging and characteristically candid conversation, Ruby looks back over an extraordinary life: growing up with difficult parents, finding comedy as a means of escape, surviving the strange machinery of fame and discovering what happens when the performance can no longer keep the darkness at bay.

Her most recent book, I’m Not as Well as I Thought I Was, begins as a search for meaning through a series of supposedly transformative journeys and ends with Ruby checking into a psychiatric clinic. Brutally honest, unexpectedly moving and extremely funny, it examines the exhausting effort of pretending to be well and the difficult business of putting yourself back together.

Ruby joins us to talk about fame, family, depression, mindfulness and what she has learned about staying human when both your own mind and the wider world appear to have gone off the rails.

This event takes place at Princess Pavillion 41 Melvill Rd, Falmouth TR11 4AR

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Falmouth Book Festival: Ruby Wax in Conversation

Sunday 18th October 1.00pm

Tickets: £12.00/£10.00

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