The Princess Diarist

The Princess Diarist

<b><i>The Princess Diarist</i> is Carrie Fisher's intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first<i> Star</i> <i>Wars </i>movie.   *PEOPLE Magazine Best Book of Fall 2016  *New York Times Bestseller * </b><br /><b><i><br />Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi, </i>featuring Carrie Fisher, is scheduled for release on December 15, 2017. <b> <i>Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynold</i>s debuted on HBO in January 2017. </b></b><br /><br />When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first <i>Star Wars </i>movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved-plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Today, her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1977, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her costar, Harrison Ford. <br /><br /> With these excerpts from her handwritten notebooks, <i>The Princess Diarist</i> is Fisher's intimate and revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous film sets of all time-and what developed behind the scenes.  Fisher also ponders the joys and insanity of celebrity, and the absurdity of a life spawned by Hollywood royalty, only to be surpassed by her own outer-space royalty. Laugh-out-loud hilarious and endlessly quotable, <i>The Princess Diarist</i> brims with the candor and introspection of a diary while offering shrewd insight into the type of stardom that few will ever experience.