Crashed (ePub)

To celebrate her 14-year clean and sober birthday, Ferguson organises to take a R3.2 million Ferrari California out on a test drive for the day. Twenty minutes before she returns the car, she is involved in a spectacular car crash, during which she experiences a near-death collision. The crash is a catalyst for a series of life-changing events. Over the following months her long-term relationship implodes in a heart-ripping showdown of betrayal and deception. She is faced with a litany of legal and financial nightmares as a result of the Ferrari being written off, while certain members of the dog-eat-dog motoring journo industry relish in her downfall. Gripped by relentless insomnia and recurring images of the car spinning out of control, Ferguson's mind begins to unhinge until in craving and desperation she admits herself to an upmarket clinic, the hotel hospital, to try to find a semblance of sanity. In her trademark gritty tell-it-all and often hilarious style, she interrogates the controversial pharma-whore psychiatric industry as she is diagnosed and medicated over her three-week stay at the clinic. Ultimately crashed sees Ferguson slowly coming to grips with the meaninglessness of outward material success as she embarks on a painful journey of introspection in search of intangible inner peace and self love in a crazy out of control world. It's South Africa's very own The girl (monk) who crashed (sold) her (his) Ferrari. Crashed will hit the print and virtual shelves in October 2015 and is the highly anticipated final part of the 3-part memoir trilogy, following in the steps of her South African bestsellers Smacked (2005) and Hooked (2010).