Bittersweet - Danielle Steel

This book makes you realize what you may have been missing in love. I just finished this book again and still loved it as much as when i read it the first time. The main character is India, a mother of four kids ages 9 to 14. She is married to Doug and she stays home with the kids. She was a photographer and a writer before she got married, doing stories in the most remote places and the most interesting things. She also worked in the peace corps. ...
...decides that she would love to go back to work occasionaly and mentions it to her husband who tells her that she made a deal and was supposed to stay home and raise kids. He tells her that she would end the deal if she went to work. India struggles with this for sometime. She and her kids go away for a vacation in the summer and she meets Paul and Serena who are both well known and famous for various things. I won't give the whole story away but ...

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I have read so many of Danielle Steel books, and I love them all with varying degrees, this one is good but not necessarily one of her best. The main character in this story is a 43 year old woman called India taylor, whose life revolves around her four children. Four children for whom she does everything with, soccer, baseball, swimming team, ballet, tennis. She loves it but with them aged between nine and fourteen, it isnt easy. Her husband Doug, ...
...thinks they live in an ideal world with the ideal relationship. Before she married Doug 17 years previous, she had an award winning career as a photojournalist, she gave this up when she finally settled down with him and got pregnant. Up untill this time she had never regretted it................................. This book tells you the story of India realising she has none of what she thinks, and makes her question her life, she finds out things ...

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His Bright Light by Danielle Steel was voted New York Times Best-seller, and I can see why, this book is a mother’s story about her son, it is a sad book where Danielle Steel describes her son’s s life. She re-calls his nineteen years, his battles throughout his life and at the end the death of her son. She describes a illness from which her son suffered and highlights the effect it had on him, and in doing so you get the feeling she ...
...best way to describe this book is that in writing about her son, she hopes to help other’s. He suffered from a mental illness, which cost him his life. Danielle Steel’s son had all of help around him such as attendants who were paid to look after him twenty four hours a day, yet he still attempted and succeeded in taking his own life. A lot of normal people can’t afford this kind of help and support, and end up all alone. In writing ...

sam123 13.03.2001 · Read full review
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I haven’t read that many of Danielle Steel’s books, but the ones I have read I have thoroughly enjoyed. She’s got such a good style of writing, one that conveys emotions making the reader feel part of the book. In ‘Bittersweet’ it’s a novel of the times as Arthur Marwick would say (a well known historian), a story of choices and new beginnings of hopes and dreams. The main character is Indian Taylor, who lived ...
...maintained calendars’. She had it all, a beautiful lifestyle envied by all, four wonderful kids. India had chosen to sacrifice her life for her children, when she married her husband 17 years ago rather than pursing her photo journalist career she once had. She lived her life contentedly but after a while she felt her life was empty, and regret had come into her heart. She yearned for the career she once had. Her husband saw her as a carer ...

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this is a very good book i have read a few of danielle steels books it normally takes me 6 months to read a book but i finished this book in 2 days i would read the book again and again this is how good the book is if you was to read any of her books then i would say start with malice one of the other books i have read from her is malice which is brillent im now trying to buy all of danielle steels books the other good book i like is house on hope ...

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