“Brady is meticulous in her reconstruction of the life of a contract player in the studio system of the thirties and forties...and superb at capturing the loose-goose chaos of early television production." – The Toronto Globe and Mail “If only Lucille Ball’s life could have been as carefree as Lucy Ricardo’s. But in this engaging biography, that madcap character often seems to exist solely to mock her creator’s own thwarted dreams…In the end, the author suggests, Lucy and Desi ‘took emotional refuge in the Ricardos, whom they both recognized as people nicer than themselves.’ So will the reader, who will cherish the Arnazes nonetheless.”\t\t – People Magazine