OSCAR winner Reese Witherspoon was so impressed with Jessica Knoll’s debut novel Luckiest Girl Alive that she optioned the book six months before publication.
Last month Knoll received the “dream’’ news that Lionsgate, the studio behind The Hunger Games blockbusters, had acquired the film rights with Witherspoon named as co-producer.
“Reese reached out directly with the studios to say she had read a great book and she helped to get the financial backing,’’ Knoll says. “The next step is to start wrangling for directors and cast and hopefully to get some big players attached. I feel really honoured that Reese has believed in the book so much and that she has championed it to a studio like Lionsgate. It feels like all the pieces are falling into place.’’
Fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train will thrill at “the perfect page-turner to start your summer” (People, Book of the Week): Luckiest Girl Alive—described by Reese Witherspoon as “one of those reads you just can’t put down!”
Book Blurb:
HER PERFECT LIFE IS A PERFECT LIE.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.
With a singular voice and twists you won’t see coming, Luckiest Girl Alive explores the unbearable pressure that so many women feel to “have it all” and introduces a heroine whose sharp edges and cutthroat ambition have been protecting a scandalous truth, and a heart that's bigger than it first appears.
The question remains: will breaking her silence destroy all that she has worked for—or, will it at long last, set Ani free?
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