Proof of Progress by Elizabeth Castellano - ISBN: 9781761828126
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Actress’s overdue book reveals a life too full to write.
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Proof of Progress

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    240 pages

  • Release Date

    15 September 2026

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Summary

From the author of the Good Morning America Book Club pick Save What’s Left 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.

Maria 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 a…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781761828126
ISBN-10:1761828126
Author:Elizabeth Castellano
Publisher:Simon & Schuster Australia
Imprint:Scribner Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:15 September 2026
Dimensions:234mm x 153mm
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Critics Review

‘I loved this book, filled with deliciously nutty, bite-sized vignettes that go down so easy. Like Grace Paley, Elizabeth Castellano is a master of low-key humour refracted through an eye for the absurd. Her voice is cynical without turning hopeless, comedic but never straying into satire. Pure pleasure.’ – Catherine Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Wreck‘The superb Elizabeth Castellano has written a delicious, hilarious, and completely original (fictional) memoir by an actress who has to honour a book contract from 40 years ago. And it’s a doozy. The components of a complicated life – love, family, and history, unspool in surprise, delight, heartache, and pain. I didn’t want this novel to end.’ – Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The View From Lake Como‘Like some gorgeous literary hybrid of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel meets Hacks in the best possible way … This is a brilliant, poignant, hilarious, heartbreaking, delightful ride that should not be missed.’ – Jessica Soffer, bestselling author of This Is a Love Story

About The Author

Elizabeth Castellano

Elizabeth Castellano lives in New York and is the author of Save What’s Left and Proof of Progress.

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