We’re celebrating the release of The Midnight Show by Jennifer Thorne and Lee Kelly (who you know from our book club!) and we’d love for you to join us at Stone & Key Cellars! 🎉
The Midnight Show is an immersive, page-turning novel about surviving as a funny woman in the male-dominated world of comedy—and what happens when the most promising female star of her generation disappears.
In the 1980s, women were not supposed to be funny. But when a group of college improv comedians gets the chance to join a new late-night show, it’s Lillian Martin who stands out. The new show was called The Midnight Show and it would air every Friday night, live from New York, and change the landscape of TV and comedy forever.
But first it would change Lillian’s and her friends’ lives. When the show becomes a runaway hit, the cast is thrown into the spotlight. Suddenly, they’re skipping the line at the city’s hottest clubs and posing on the cover of Rolling Stone. Lillian, in particular, seems destined for bigger things—until one winter night in Lower Manhattan, she vanishes, leaving nothing behind but questions. Was Lillian a victim of her own excesses? Was it a mugging gone wrong? Or could she have been killed by someone in her own inner circle?
Forty years later, Lillian’s disappearance has still never been solved. But when a budding journalist looking to examine Lillian’s story from a modern lens begins asking questions, she stirs up decades-old drama—as well as tightly-held secrets some comedy legends would much rather stay buried.
A propulsive story of fame and friendship told through a variety of media—compiled interviews, articles, transcripts—The Midnight Show takes readers behind the scenes of the cutthroat world of comedy in 1980s New York and asks if the rush of getting a laugh is all it’s cracked up to be.
About the Authors:
Jenn Thorne is the USA Today bestselling author of Diavola and Lute, and Lee Kelly wrote City of Savages, A Criminal Magic, and With Regrets. They met on the writing circuit, hit it off immediately, and they teamed up to write this novel.
Come get your book signed, have a drink, and hear them talk about the years of research that went into this one, including improv classes and a trip to NBC Studios!
đź—“ Monday, April 6 at 7 PM (SPECIAL MONDAY NIGHT OPENING!)
đź“Ť Stone & Key Cellars, Ambler
🎟 Free to attend
🍷 Wine and cider for sale by Stone & Key Cellars
đź“š Books for sale by The Doylestown Bookshop
