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The Pink Cadillac Diaries
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781836155522
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing Limited
Published: Jun 18 2026
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
In the sweltering summer of 1975 California, eighteen-year-old Sonny is drifting-lost in parties, drugs, and the widening distance between her and a mother who no longer knows how to reach her. Working in a dusty record store by day and stumbling through numb nights, Sonny longs for escape, for purpose, for a story of her own.
Everything changes the day she's sent to clean the crumbling mansion on the hill-home to Lula Petite, a sharp-tongued, glamorous, and irresistibly chaotic former Hollywood starlet with a past that stretches from Parisian brothels to London cabarets to the glittering heights of old Hollywood.** What begins as a reluctant job becomes an unexpected lifeline as Sonny is pulled into Lula's wild orbit: the pink Cadillac, the cocktails at noon, the stories that sprawl across decades of love, reinvention, heartbreak, and survival.
As their unlikely friendship deepens, Lula's unapologetic life forces Sonny to confront her own. Through their shared moments-reckless, tender, and transformative-Sonny begins to understand the power of storytelling, the weight of the histories we carry, and the courage it takes to choose a different future.
Sweeping from 1970s California to the electric glamour of early-20th-century Europe and Hollywood, *The Pink Cadillac Diaries* is a coming-of-age novella about identity, unlikely friendships, the legacies that shape us, and the fierce, aching desire to reinvent who we are.
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