The Princess Diarist

<p>When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first <em>Star Wars </em>movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved - plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naivet&eacute;, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Now 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 co-star, Harrison Ford.</p> <p>With these excerpts from her handwritten notebooks, <em>The Princess Diarist</em> 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, <em>The Princess Diarist</em> brims with the candour and introspection of a diary while offering shrewd insight into the type of stardom that few will ever experience.</p>