NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Danielle Steel’s remarkable new novel, one of her most memorable characters comes to terms with unfinished business and long-buried truths as the mother of three very different daughters with three singular fathers.
As a young intern at an art gallery in Paris, Isabelle McAvoy meets Putnam Armstrong, wealthy, gentle, older, and secluded from the world. Isabelle’s relationship with Putnam, and her time at his château on the Normandy coast are the stuff of dreams. But it turns real when she becomes pregnant, for she knows that marriage is out of the question.
When Isabelle returns to New York, she enters a new relationship that she hopes will be more stable and traditional. But she soon realizes she has made a terrible mistake and again finds herself a single mother.
With two young daughters and no husband, Isabelle finally and unexpectedly finds happiness and a love that gives her a third child, a baby as happy as her beloved father. And yet, once again, life brings dramatic changes.
The three girls grow up to be very different women, and Isabelle’s relationship with each of them is unique. While raising her girls alone, Isabelle also begins building a career as a successful art consultant. Then one final turn of fate brings a past secret to light, bonds mother and daughters closer, and turns a challenge into a blessing.
- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Delacorte Press (May 7, 2019)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0399179321
- ISBN-13: 978-0399179327
My review: I am a huge Danielle Steel fan. I have been reading her books for 20+ years. I usually pick her books up after I have finished a few murder mysteries and want something light to read. Danielle Steel seems to have a pattern of developing her female characters from a very vulnerable state to extremely strong and in control. I have seen this pattern in most of the books I have read in the last few years. I still enjoy her books. And I do like the fact that she leaves the women in her books very strong in the end. Her main female characters always seem to beat the odds. And there always seems to be more than one male character that is bad and tries to take the female character down. And then the knight in shining armor comes in to save the day. Predictable yes. But I still enjoy her books and will continue to read each and every one. They make me feel good when I am finished.
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