Description
Product Description
The
New York Times and
USA TODAY bestseller that Reese Witherspoon described as “one of those reads you just can’t put down,” explores the unbearable pressure that so many women feel to “have it all” and how one young woman uses her sharp edges and cutthroat ambition to hide a scandalous truth.
As a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, Ani FaNelli endured a shocking, public humiliation that left her desperate to reinvent herself. Now, with a glamorous job, expensive wardrobe, and handsome blue blood fiancé, she’s
this close to living the perfect life she’s worked so hard to achieve.
But Ani has a secret.
There’s something else buried in her past that still haunts her, something private and painful that threatens to bubble to the surface and destroy everything. The question remains: will breaking her silence destroy all that she has worked for or will it—at long last—set Ani free?
With a singular voice and twists you won’t see coming,
Luckiest Girl Alive is “nail-bitingly addictive…equal parts funny and twisted” (
Glamour) and proves that the perfect life is often a perfect lie.
Review
"[A] huge summer read . . . one of those great stories that you can't put down!"-- Reese Witherspoon,
InStyle
"The perfect page-turner to start your summer."--
People (Book of the Week)
"Dark, twisty . . . razor-sharp writing . . . propulsive prose . . . [The] reveal is a real doozy--a legitimately shocking, completely unputdownable sequence that unfolds like a slow-motion horror film. It instantly elevates
Luckiest Girl . . . and that momentum keeps going until its final pages."--
EW
"Loved
Gone Girl? We promise [
Luckiest Girl Alive is] just as addictive."--
Good Housekeeping
"A pulse-pounding, jaw-dropping novel about how tragedy twists and shapes lives."--
InTouch (A-)
"A knockout debut novel . . . completely enthralling . . . devilishly dark and fun."--
Publishers Weekly
"[Ani FaNelli is] a cross between
Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw and
Gone Girl's Amy Dunne. . . . Knoll's debut truly delivers and will keep readers engaged until the end."
--
Library Journal
"This is going to be the book you insist all your friends read this summer. . . . [A] clever, cunning satire on the female condition in the 21st century."--
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
"When Ani FaNelli wants something, she gets it: the job, the body, the man. What starts as a
Mean Girls-seeming story line transforms into something so dark, so plot-twistingly intense that...well, actually, no spoilers here." --
Marie Claire
"Your next book."--
People StyleWatch
About the Author
Jessica Knoll is the
New York Times bestselling author of
Luckiest Girl Alive, which has been optioned for film by Lionsgate with Reese Witherspoon set to produce. She has been a senior editor at
Cosmopolitan and the articles editor at
Self. She grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and graduated from The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and her bulldog, Beatrice
. The Favorite Sister is her second novel.