One Day at a Time

Zusatztext Praise for Danielle Steel “Steel is one of the best!” — Los Angeles Times “Few modern writers convey the pathos of family and material life with such heartfelt empathy.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer “Steel pulls out all the emotional stops. . . . She delivers!” — Publishers Weekly “What counts for the reader is the ring of authenticity.” — San Francisco Chronicle Informationen zum Autor Danielle Steel Klappentext Danielle Steel celebrates families of every stripe in her compelling novel-a tale of three very different couples who struggle and survive! love! laugh! and learn to take life . . . Coco Barrington was born into a legendary Hollywood family. Her mother! Florence! is a mega-bestselling author. Her sister! Jane! is one of Hollywood's top producers and has lived with her partner! Liz! for ten years in a solid! loving relationship. Florence! widowed but still radiant! has just begun a secret romance with a man twenty-four years her junior. But Coco! a law-school dropout and the family black sheep! works as a dog walker! having fled life in the spotlight for an artsy Northern California beach town. When Coco reluctantly agrees to house-sit for Jane! she discovers an unexpected houseguest: Leslie Baxter! a dashing but down-to-earth British actor who's fleeing a psycho ex-girlfriend. Their worlds couldn't be more different. The attraction couldn't be more immediate. And as Coco contemplates a future with one of Hollywood's hottest stars! as her mother and sister settle into their lives! old wounds are healed and new families are formed-some traditional! some not so traditional! but all bonded by love. With wit and intelligence! Danielle Steel's novel explores love in all its guises! taking us into the lives of three unusual but wonderfully real couples. Funny! sexy! and wise! One Day at a Time is at once moving! thought-provoking! and utterly impossible to put down. Chapter One It was an absolutely perfect June day as the sun came up over the city, and Coco Barrington watched it from her Bolinas deck. She sat looking at pink and orange streak across the sky as she drank a cup of steaming Chinese tea, stretched out on an ancient, faded broken deck chair she had bought at a yard sale. A weather-worn wooden statue of Qan Ying observed the scene peacefully. Qan Ying was the goddess of compassion, and the statue had been a treasured gift. Under the benevolent gaze of Qan Ying, the pretty auburn-haired young woman sat in the golden light of the sunrise, as the early summer sun shot copper lights through her long wavy hair, which hung nearly to her waist. She was wearing an old flannel nightgown with barely discernible hearts on it, and her feet were bare. The house she lived in sat on a plateau in Bolinas, overlooking the ocean and narrow beach below. This was exactly where Coco wanted to be. She had lived here for four years. This tiny forgotten farm and beach community, less than an hour north of San Francisco, suited her perfectly at twenty-eight. Calling her home a house was generous. It was barely more than a cottage, and her mother and sister referred to it as a hovel or, on better days, a shack. It was incomprehensible to either of them why Coco would want to live there—or how she would even tolerate it. It was their worst nightmare come true, even for her. Her mother had tried wheedling, insulting, criticizing, and even bribing her to come back to what they referred to as "civilization" in L.A. Nothing about her mother's life, or the way she had grown up, seemed "civilized" to Coco. In her opinion, everything about it was a fraud. The people, the way they lived, the goals they aspired to, the houses they lived in, and the face-lifts on every woman she knew. It all seemed artificial to her. Her life in Bolina...

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Praise for Danielle Steel

Steel is one of the best! Los Angeles Times

Few modern writers convey the pathos of family and material life with such heartfelt empathy. The Philadelphia Inquirer

Steel pulls out all the emotional stops. . . . She delivers! Publishers Weekly

What counts for the reader is the ring of authenticity. San Francisco Chronicle

Product details

• Authors: Danielle Steel
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.01.2010
• EAN: 9780440243335
• ISBN: 978-0-440-24333-5
• No. of pages: 399
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 174 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Dell
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature