When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars 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.
Smart and funny...the pages crackle with one-liners
It’s an eye-opener for fans, but it also shows a gifted writer even at a young age. There was a lot going on between Princess Leia’s hair buns.
An unflinching, sometimes painful, sometimes hilarious look inside the mind of a 19-year-old … It’s invasive, juicy, sad, nostalgic and gripping all at once. It’s as if you’ve knocked the lock off of your cooler older sister’s journal and discovered she’s been sleeping with the hottest boy in school this whole time.
Fisher offers a thoughtful, sardonic meditation on the price of fame, cost-of-living adjustments included.
[
The Princess Diarist] is a radical truth bomb
Carrie Fisher was so real it was dangerous…. My God, girls, we owe her a lot.
She didn't need The Force. She was a force of nature, of loyalty and of friendship.
Carrie Fisher was an author and actress best known for her role as Princess Leia in the
Star Wars franchise. She appeared in countless other films, including
Shampoo and
When Harry Met Sally, and wrote four bestselling novels:
Surrender the Pink,
Delusions of Grandma,
The Best Awful and
Postcards from the Edge, as well as the memoirs
Shockaholic and
Wishful Drinking.