La Lucci

Susan Lucci, Laura Morton

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Book cover for La Lucci
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La Lucci

La Lucci

Susan Lucci, Laura Morton

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The moving follow-up to Susan Lucci's New York Times bestseller, All My Life, this stunning new memoir includes nearly one hundred never-before-seen photos.

The long-running Queen of Daytime television, Susan Lucci--who has gone by the endearment, La Lucci, since her earliest days on the set of All My Children--knows a thing or two about life, love, joy, adventure, and remaking oneself after loss, both personally and professionally.

While Erica Kane, her character on the daytime drama All My Children, had married eleven times during her forty-one years on air, Susan had been married only once--to the love of her life, Helmut Huber. When Helmut passed away unexpectedly in March of 2022, she faced one of the greatest challenges of her life--overcoming grief and striving to live with hope and joy again while still honoring her memories.

This is a book that celebrates love, friendships, those we admire up close or from afar, the influential teachers in our lives, the wonder of family, parenting and grandparenting, the magic of theatre, fulfilled dreams, grace, freshly baked apples, Alpine cheese, home renovations, modern medicine, faith, miracles large and small, mending one's heart, and moving forward. But most of all, this is a book written with gratitude.

It is with a tender mix of candor, humor, and vulnerability that Lucci reflects on both her many life blessings and her biggest hurdles. At turns entertaining, funny, sad, healing, and genuinely informative, her stories are not just about mourning loss, they are about grabbing and living life with gusto at every stage ... on every stage.

Critical Reviews

"When grief threatens to swallow her whole, she has her memories of a lifetime spent with Huber and the wisdom he left behind."

-- "People"

"Lucci reflects on her experience with grief in her new book La Lucci...surrendering to her vulnerability once again and sharing it with the world."

-- "People"

"Lucci is giving an intimate look at her personal and professional life in her new memoir, La Lucci...And though La Lucci is filled with plenty of humorous anecdotes about her All My Children days, she also gets candid about grieving her husband Helmut (who died in 2022) and her health...You might not expect a primer on women's health statistics from a celebrity memoir, but Lucci is careful to include essential facts about cardiovascular disease for readers."

-- "USA Today"

"Susan tackles grief, loss, and resilience in her intimate memoir...She reflects on rejecting labels and embracing love."

-- "Woman's World"

"All My Children star Lucci discusses grieving her husband, TV producer Helmut Huber, in this heartfelt memoir...With conversational candor, the actor provides an unsentimental road map for moving on in the face of profound personal (and professional) loss. Even readers unfamiliar with Lucci's TV work will find this worth a look."

-- "Publishers Weekly"

"Daytime television's most recognizable actress digs deeper...Lucci's legion of fans will adore this gracious nod to her career longevity and positivity."

-- "Kirkus Reviews"

"Her second memoir, La Lucci, arrives with a radically different perspective and energy. Lucci has moved on, far beyond, to a particularly raw, vulnerable place that may surprise those still-devoted fans."

-- "Newsday"

"Susan Lucci is back...La Lucci chronicles her experience with grief and other challenging moments."

-- "Variety"

"Susan Lucci left us spellbound for more than forty years as one of the most famous characters on daytime television...Lucci writes about her deeply personal journey of overcoming grief and how she finally found her way into the light in her new memoir La Lucci."

-- "CBS News"

"An incredible book!"

-- "Kelly Ripa, Live with Kelly and Mark"

"Susan Lucci opens her heart in such an honest and courageous way...I found myself crying...It's not often where you read a book where you feel so moved like that. I knew I was reading Susan Lucci's book, but I didn't know I was getting to know the real Susan Lucci and all the things she had endured. I really enjoyed it."

-- "Jennie Garth, I Choose Me with Jennie Garth podcast"

"A book about reinvention, loss, and [her] resilience through that...It's not a depressing book about loss. It's about getting through something hard and coming out the other side and lots of great stories in between."

-- "Rebecca Budig, Soapy podcast"

"Reading this book and learning about [Susan's] life was so incredibly important for me."

-- "Vladimir Duthiers, featured host on CBS Mornings"

A beautiful, beautiful read."

-- "Greg Rikaart, Soapy podcast"

"This book is a gift for us...I find [her] authenticity wildly inspiring."

-- "Mary Calvi, CBS New York news anchor"

"[La Lucci] will help anybody who has lost anybody...Even if you didn't watch All My Children, even if you don't know who she is, you can pick it up and learn so much from entertainment, to motherhood, to loss and grief, friendship, all of it."

-- "Zibby Owens, USA Today bestselling author, host of the Totally Booked with Zibby podcast"

"The book is going to be really impactful for a lot of people who've lost the love of their lives about how to move forward."

-- "Andy Cohen"

Publishing Information

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Pub date: 2026-02-03
Length: 197 pages

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