track the actress down. Eventually it is confirmed that Leila Miller (the actress) is in fact Billy’s biological mother. She doesn’t recognise Billy or Karoo as she hasn’t seen Billy since his birth and only had one phone conversation with Karoo years ago. We find Leila is haunted by the memory of giving up her child and still unaware of the facts, she and Karoo fall in love. For this reason Karoo attempts to fix the Arthur Houseman movie to make Leila the star, at the price of ruining the master piece he considered the original cut to be. Billy and Leila started to fall for one another, still unaware of the true connection between them. But Karoo has a plan, at the first screening of the new movie as Leila becomes a star he will also tell them both the truth about their relation to one another. On the morning of the screening they take a trip, which ends in a road accident. With Karoo at the wheel, their car crashed into an oncoming vehicle, killing both Leila and Billy and leaving Karoo unconscious in a hospital bed for days. Upon waking Karoo learns that both his girlfriend and son are now dead and the movie was a hit. Leila, though posthumously, was now a star. Karoo at this point no longer narrates the book, he is merely spoken of in the third person now. Finally Karoo is asked by the relentless Cromwell to turn his exposé about the accident into a screenplay for a movie. References 1998 American novels Novels by Steve Tesich