Unaccompanied Minor

Born with a famous name to a show business marriage Alexander Newley is the son of the Hollywood stars Joan Collins and Anthony Newley. Their life was one of almost unparalleled privilege and glamour but under the glossy veneer there was infidelity insecurity and emotional trauma. This book written with humour and compassion tells the story of Alexanders nomadic childhood; the disintegration of his parents marriage; and his battle to make sense of the past. It is also a meditation on art identity and inheritance and a portrait of London and Hollywood during the swinging sixties and seventies. Complementing Alexanders vivid and razor-sharp prose are more than twenty of his own artworks depicting the people who played a pivotal role in his early years.