Confessions of a Wild Child - (Lucky Santangelo) by Jackie Collins (Paperback)

About the Book

The prequel to Jackie Collins' Lucky Santangelo novels, featuring a young, beautiful and headstrong teenaged Lucky.

Book Synopsis

How did Lucky Santangelo become the kick-ass woman she is today? Only bestselling author Jackie Collins can tell in this prequel to all of the Santangelo novels, featuring a young, beautiful and headstrong teenaged Lucky

Lucky Saint is a fifteen-year-old wild child who discovered her mother's murdered body floating in the family swimming pool when she was only five years old. She is the daughter of the notorious Gino, who's kept her cloistered in their Bel Air mansion ever since. But she's about to discover the world: boys, sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. And no one can stop her now...

CONFESSIONS OF A WILD CHILD

Lucky navigates her teen years-from first kisses and brushes with famous older men to attending boarding school and adventuring through exotic Greek islands-as Gino, a powerful Vegas hotel owner, struggles to control her. Meanwhile, her brother, Dario, is too scared to tell Gino that he's gay. But fearless Lucky will not be held back by her father...or anyone else. Soon she has no choice but to strike out on her own path-one that will lead her to become the powerful and charismatic woman that she was destined to be...

"Jackie Collins knows a thing or two about life in the fast lane...[with] her wry sense of humor and spitfire approach." -Bazaar

Review Quotes

"No one paints a more delicious portrait of Hollywood than Jackie Collins." --New York Post

"Jackie Collins knows a thing or two about life in the fast lane...[with] her wry sense of humor and spitfire approach." --Bazaar

"If anyone knows Hollywood, it's Jackie Collins." --New York Daily News

About the Author

Jackie Collins (1937-2015) has been called a "raunchy moralist" by the late director Louis Malle and "Hollywood's own Marcel Proust" by Vanity Fair magazine. With some twenty-seven New York Times bestsellers to her credit, she was one of the world's top-selling novelists. Her books include the Lucky Santangelo series (Poor Little Bitch Girl, Drop Dead Beautiful, etc.), Lovers & Players, and The Power Trip. Collins was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 2013.