#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Danielle Steel follows a talented and creative woman as she launches her first television series, helping to recruit an unforgettable cast that will bring a dramatic family saga to the screen. Kait Whittier has built her magazine column into a hugely respected read followed by fans across the country. She loves her work and adores her grown children, treasuring the … grown children, treasuring the time they spend together. But after two marriages, she prefers to avoid the complications and uncertainties of a new love.
Then, after a chance meeting with Zack Winter, a television producer visiting Manhattan from Los Angeles, everything changes. Inspired by the true story of her own indomitable grandmother, Kait creates the storyline for a TV series. And when she shares her work with Zack, he is impressed and decides to make this his next big-budget project.
Within weeks, Kait is plunged into a colorful world of actors and industry pros who will bring her vision to life. A cool, competent director. An eccentric young screenwriter. A world-famous actress coping with private tragedy. A reclusive grande dame from Hollywood’s Golden Age. A sizzling starlet whose ego outstrips her abilities. L.A.’s latest “bad boy” actor, whose affairs are setting the city on fire. An unknown ingénue with outsized talent. And a rugged, legendary leading man. As secrets are shared, the cast becomes a second family for Kait. But in the midst of this charmed year, she is suddenly forced to confront the greatest challenge a mother could ever know.
The strength of women—across generations and among friends, colleagues, and family—takes center stage in this irresistible novel, as all-too-real people find the courage to persevere in life’s drama of heartbreak and joy.
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Fairytale baloney
Perfect as usual for Danielle Steel.
I love Danielle Steel! Another book that I could not put down, thoroughly enjoyed.
As always Danielle Steel never disappoints you.
I like most everything that Danielle Steele writes. Her books always keep you interested and eager to keep turning the pages.
This was a story about a career woman, a columnist, who changes her career midlife at a time when she is an empty nester. She doesn’t plan the change, but it evolves after she meets a film director and is inspired to write a story about women who were successful in a time women were not in those roles (like her grandmother). I was sorry to see it end, leaving the future to my imagination…
I didn’t read it yet!
Wasn’t a fan – very predictable
Every time I decide to try a Danielle Steele book, I realize why I don’t read her books. They are redundant, repetitive and not very deep in the area of vocabulary. I am barely a quarter of the way through this book and she has repeated the same thing about the characters ad nauseum. Over and over detailing what she has already said, sometimes the same way, sometimes differently. I’ll continue to read this book, and will return if something amazing happens to turn it around. Like a new sentence.
This was an easy to read book. You salute the players in the books as the exceed in their problems of every day life.
This was a good book, not my favorite but still good. I felt it went way to fast, it just skipped over the year and I would have liked it to have slowed down. It was nice that is started and ended at the holidays. I liked the characters, they were all good. I liked Agnes and it would have been nice to have tell more of her story in depth. But overall Danielle Steel keeps you glued to the pages and doesn’t let you go!
Great book
Couldn’t put down. Different type of novel. Excellent read.
Typical Steele
Danielle Steele is a fantastic author