Oh, my lucky star!

I have been, for me, pretty patient and my uncomplaining perseverance has been rewarded. My first edition of Joe Keenan's new book, My Lucky Star, arrived today and it's taking every ounce of my sense of duty not to abandon the piles of work on my desk and steal away to a quiet coffee bar where I can read it cover to cover.

The long-awaited third novel from the author of Blue Heaven and Putting on the Ritz is here! The Booklist precis:

Struggling playwrights Philip and Claire are summoned to Tinseltown by their calculating friend Gilbert to be screenwriters for a legendary diva, Diana Malenfant, and her megastar son, Stephen Donato. When the budding screenwriters are revealed as inadvertent plagiarists, Philip is forced to ghostwrite the memoirs of Diana's toxic has-been sister, Lily, and turn over all potentially damaging pages to Diana and Stephen. Lily is threatening to expose the silver screen's best-kept secret, that Stephen is gay. All are coexisting in a glittery detente until L.A.'s most fashionable madam gets the goods on the entire cast and demands a production credit, prodding the ever-capable Claire to devise the most madcap of rescues.

I have yet to read a word, but I can nonetheless recommend My Lucky Star without reservation to anyone who enjoys smart, fast-paced farce. My friends who have no doubt tired of my endless enthusing over the first two books about the misadventures of Philip and Gilbert, and anyone into whose hands I have thrust copies of the same and refused to speak with further until they've read them, will no doubt be relieved that I have something new to obsess about.

Go get it!

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