Confessions of a Wild Child
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4.1 • 53 Ratings
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- £2.99
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
Confessions of a Wild Child takes you on trip and navigates the teenage years of a wild child who will eventually rule an empire.
Lucky Santangelo is a powerful and charismatic woman. But how did she become the woman she is today? Many people have asked, and in Confessions of a Wild Child we discover the teenage Lucky, and follow her on her trip to discover boys, love and how she fought her father, the infamous Gino Santangelo, to forge her own individual and strong road to success.
Even at fifteen Lucky follows her own path, and it's a crazy ride taking the reader from a strict girls school in Switzerland to an idyllic Greek island, a Bel Air estate, a New York penthouse, and a shuttered villa in the South of France.
Nobody can control Lucky. She knows what she wants and she goes for it with no holds barred.
Lucky at fifteen – a true revelation.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ambitious, cunning Lucky Santangelo, daughter of gangster Gino Santangelo, is one of Jackie Collins's most popular heroines. In this prequel, Collins goes back in time to tell the tale of Lucky's misspent youth as a wild 15-year-old: fooling around with countless boys, getting kicked out of stuffy boarding schools, secretly running off with a friend for a crazy adventure, and ultimately, being forced into an arranged marriage by her father. Narrator Poitier is well cast as Lucky, perfectly capturing the carefree, rebellious, defiant tone of a teen impatient to grow up and unwilling to play by anyone's rules. Poitier also has a lot of fun producing over-the-top character voices, including a strict French schoolmistress and a sassy fashion consultant. Ca ez narrates chapters told from Gino's point of view. His narration is serviceable and straightforward; it works, but Poitier is much more entertaining. A St. Martin's hardcover.
Customer Reviews
Bridge the Gap
Okay read.
There were a couple of highs deriving from Lucky and Olympia run-away antics.
However, it was obvious to me that it was a gap bridger for earlier novels. I stuck with it to the abrupt end, but have read better from Jackie.
Great but short
Loved this book as I love all of Jackie,s however it's just too short!! Not really worth the £9.99 I paid for it.
Disappointing
I purchased this book because I love Jackie Collins' novels. Unfortunately it didn't live up to expectations. While the story itself was good it ended very abruptly - it was a very short book by Jackie's standards which made it an expensive purchase (£9.99 for 417 pages)!