{"product_id":"proof-of-progress-by-elizabeth-castellano-9781761828126","title":"Proof of Progress","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the author of the \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGood Morning America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Book Club pick \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSave What’s Left\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e comes a witty and sharp-tongued novel about an actress whose manuscript is thirty-seven years overdue – and the life moments that led to its delay.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMaria Astorini, once popular character actress and late-night talk show darling, is having a moment. The B-list actress has survived deaths, divorces, a famous mother, a Hollywood blacklist, a string of public embarrassments, an aging face, financial ruin, an empty nest, a difficult best friend, and a worldwide pandemic. Now, she’s back and bigger than ever. A small, unexpected role has heightened her celebrity status and propelled her, at age sixty-five, into the limelight. And then, along comes the call Maria has spent decades avoiding. It’s her publisher asking, ‘Where is that book?’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMaria knows the world doesn’t need another celebrity memoir. To finally fulfil her contract, Maria writes, or attempts to write, or, at the very least, sends a pile of pages meant to vaguely resemble the book she promised to deliver nearly four decades earlier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a series of bite-sized anecdotes, she candidly recalls her past, chronicling the significant, and insignificant moments of her full, funny, and extraordinarily unpredictable life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMaria hasn’t been able to write a book about her life – she’s been too busy living it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47745307934956,"sku":"9781761828126","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781761828126-proof-of-progress.jpg?v=1781499225","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/proof-of-progress-by-elizabeth-castellano-9781761828126","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}