Misfortune's Daughters

In this utterly compelling novel, two sisters born into privilege find themselves forced to make wrenching life decisions as they struggle with a troubled family legacy and the immense weight of wealth, fame, ambition, and betrayal.Misfortune's Daughters chronicles the gripping, multigenerational saga of the wealthy Stephanopolis family. Beginning in the Golden Era of Hollywood, the beautiful and talented actress Laura Marlowe meets the young, dashing, and rich shipping magnate Nicholas Stephanopolis. After a whirlwind courtship, the two marry and move to the private Stephanopolis Island in the south of Greece. Yet heartache and tragedy soon find them and extend into the lives of their two very different but willful and ambitious daughters, Venetia and Atlanta. One is a beautiful and favored daughter who's bent on self-destruction; the other is a wallflower who buries herself in books and shies away from her privileged world. But both must confront the legacy and tragedy of the lives of their parents. Sweeping across almost 60 years and jetting from New York to Paris, Los Angeles, and Greece, Misfortune's Daughters is an irresistible, page-turning tale that reveals the glittering life of show business and the grittiness of the journalistic profession. Drawing on her own knowledge and experience, Collins takes the reader deep inside the exclusive gates of wealth and luxury, exposing dark secrets and forbidden desires as two young women vie to break free from their family's shadow and become independent women in their own right.

Author: Joan Collins
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 03/02/2005
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.48w x 1.16d
ISBN: 9781401300685

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 08/01/2004 pg. 1875
Ingram Advance 03/01/2005 pg. 55
Booklist 02/01/2005 pg. 917
Publishers Weekly 02/14/2005 pg. 55

About the Author
Joan Collins has published four bestselling novels (Star Quality, Love and Desire and Hate, Prime Time, and Too Damn Famous), four lifestyle books (including Joan's Way), and two volumes of autobiography. In Hollywood, the West End, and on Broadway, she has appeared in over fifty-five films, twenty-five TV shows, and countless plays. During her career she has amassed many awards, and is internationally renowned for playing Alexis Carrington in Dynasty. In 1998, Joan was honored with an OBE (Order of the British Empire) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.