Luckiest Girl Alive

Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll is an audacious, page-turning debut thriller for fans of Gillian Flynn, Paula Hawkins and Jodi Picoult.

Her perfect life is a perfect lie . . . Ani FaNelli is the woman who has it all: the glamorous job, the designer wardrobe, the handsome and rich fiancé. But behind her sharp edges and meticulously crafted facade lies the darkest of pasts . . .

When a documentary producer invites Ani to tell her side of the chilling and violent incident that took place when she was a teenager at the prestigious Bradley school, she hopes it will be an opportunity to prove how far she’s turned her life around since then. She’ll even let the production company film her lavish wedding, the final step in her transformation.

But as the wedding and filming converge, Ani’s past threatens to come back and haunt her. And as her immaculate veneer starts to crack, she is forced to question: will breaking her silence destroy all that she has worked for – or, will it at long last, set Ani free?

Review

[A] huge summer read . . . one of those great stories that you can't put down! -- Reese Witherspoon ― InStyle

Luckiest Girl Alive is a brilliant character study wrapped up in a can’t-put-it-down thriller. Ani FaNelli, the luckiest girl of the title, will infuriate you with her sharp edges, intrigue you with her unexpected fragility and ultimately win your heart. I lost myself in this intelligently crafted novel and can’t wait to read more from Jessica Knoll -- Diane Chamberlain

Fresh, funny, biting and shocking – Luckiest Girl Alive kept me riveted from cover to cover. I absolutely loved it. -- Lauren Weisberger, author of The Devil Wears Prada

I whipped through Luckiest Girl Alive. Razor sharp and unexpectedly thought provoking -- Colette McBeth

With the cunning and verve of Gillian Flynn but with a febrile intensity all its own, Jessica Knoll’s Luckiest Girl Alive is a debut you won't want to miss. Sly, darkly funny and chilling to the bone, it gets under your skin and stays there -- Megan Abbott

The freshest new voice . . . the best book I’ve read in a long time -- Jane Fallon

At turns funny, shocking, violent and heart-rending, Luckiest Girl Alive hooks its reader and doesn’t let go. Jessica Knoll’s twisted, twisting debut beautifully explores reinvention, retribution and redemption – and all the rawness in between -- Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

The most compelling debut novel I've read in years! Luckiest Girl Alive is intriguing, surprising and even shockingly funny at times. And Ani FaNelli is a complex, heartbreaking and unforgettable heroine ― John Searles

Luckiest Girl Alive is a wickedly well-plotted page-turner that lifts back the veil of Ani FaNelli’s glamour and privilege to tread amongst the sharp emotional thorns lying beneath. Knoll’s novel dazzles with humor, cultural insight and thematic heft -- Alissa Nutting, author of Tampa

Loved Gone Girl? We promise [Luckiest Girl Alive is] just as addictive ― Good Housekeeping

About the Author

Jessica Knoll is the New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive, which was made into a number one Netflix movie starring Mila Kunis. 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 their bulldog, Beatrice. Bright Young Women is her third novel.