{"product_id":"proof-of-progress-by-elizabeth-castellano-out-15-september-2026","title":"Proof of Progress by Elizabeth Castellano (out 15 September 2026)","description":"\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e.cs1EF720B{12pt;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-style:italic;Times New Roman;} .cs3270F94{margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:0pt} .cs982313B{12pt;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Times New Roman;} .cs97DFFCB{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Times New Roman;}\u003c\/style\u003e\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003cp class=\"cs3270F94\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs982313B\"\u003eA witty and sharp-tongued novel about a writer and actress who finally comes to write the manuscript that is thirty-seven years overdue – for fans of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs1EF720B\"\u003eWe All Want Impossible Things \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs982313B\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs1EF720B\"\u003eThe Correspondent.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs97DFFCB\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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?’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaria hasn’t been able to write a book about her life – she’s been too busy living it. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Kangaroo Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44340459995224,"sku":"9781761828126","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/8343\/1000\/files\/9781761828126_1.jpg?v=1783384774","url":"https:\/\/redkangaroobooks.au\/products\/proof-of-progress-by-elizabeth-castellano-out-15-september-2026","provider":"Red Kangaroo Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}