A raw, funny, and deeply human memoir about survival, reinvention, and reclaiming joy.
In Five Fat Sausages, Pam Wood shares her journey through childhood PTSD, mental health diagnoses, and lived trauma with extraordinary honesty. Told with wit, warmth, and disarming playfulness, the book balances dark material with moments of levity and laugh-out-loud relief.
Pam’s refreshing candour invites readers to find truth, hope, and strength within her story, and within themselves. This is a memoir that refuses tidy narratives, choosing instead to reclaim life in unconventional, deeply human ways.
About the book
This is not a linear story of healing. Five Fat Sausages balances darkness with wit and levity, offering moments of laughter alongside hard truths.
Praise for Five Fat Sausages
I read [Five Fat Sausages] in one day … It was enthralling. Eye-opening. Hilarious. Heart-breaking. It was everything.
Deb BIf you want to read a cracking story about the lows and highs that inevitably follow childhood trauma, mental health challenges and neurodiversity, then you must read this book.
Karyn WPam Wood describes her roller-coaster life with mental illness and neurodivergence in comic/tragic detail. Her comedic voice leads us through a life of struggle with self-doubt and self-sabotage and allows us to laugh and cry with her.
Sandy J
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About the author
Pam Wood lives in a suburb of Naarm in Melbourne, on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people. She is an emerging author and performer whose work explores identity, trauma, and the long process of reclaiming one’s voice. Her writing is marked by honesty and humour, and a refusal to smooth the edges of lived experience.
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