Jackie Collins her novels) for the film "Yesterday's Hero" (1979). In the 1980s, Collins and her family moved to Los Angeles on a full-time basis, where she would continue to write about the "rich and famous". She said, "If you wish to be successful, there is a place you should be at a certain time. And Los Angeles in the 1980s was it." Her next novel was "Chances" (1981). It introduced one of her best-known characters, Lucky Santangelo, the "dangerously beautiful" daughter of a gangster. While living in the hills above Sunset Boulevard, Collins collected the knowledge and experience to write her
Boss of the Pool an example of "children's and youth literature becoming more confronting and realistic", addressing a range of conditions "either as a primary or more frequently as a secondary theme", along with Two Weeks with The Queen (1989) by Morris Gleitzman, which addresses AIDS and cancer. She notes "Boss of the Pool" (1986) "sensitively" tackles "intellectual disabilitites and learning difficulties". Jenny Kendrick describes it as one of a number of "books in which the character with learning difficulties is not allowed to evolve at all, and is merely a vehicle for the development of the other child or children". Some of these