The Princess Diarist

<p>When Carrie Fisher 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 naivet&#233; 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. <br> With these excerpts from her handwritten notebooks <i>The Princess Diarist</i> is Fisher&#146;s intimate and revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous film sets of all time &#150; 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 candour and introspection of a diary while offering shrewd insight into the type of stardom that few will ever experience.</p>