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Set in a small mid-western town in America in the 1950s where a child's senseless death, the breakup of a marriage and the arrival of a stranger lead to changes in many lives, and to the restoration of a family's dreams.
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On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-boundbus into a small midwestern town. She doesn't intend to stay. She is justpassing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a storythat you will never forget.
The time is the 1950s, when life was simpler, people still believed in dreams,and family was, very nearly, everything. The place is a small midwestern townwith a high school and a downtown, a skating pond and a movie house. And on atree-lined street in the heartland of America, an extraordinary set of eventsbegins to unfold. And gradually what seems serendipitous is tinged withpurpose. A happy home is shattered by a child's senseless death. A lovingmarriage starts to unravel. And a stranger arrives--a young woman who willtouch many lives before she moves on. She and a young man will meet and fallin love. Their love, so innocent and full of hope, helps to restore a family'sdreams. And all of their lives will be changed forever by the precious giftshe leaves them.
The Gift, Danielle Steel's thirty-third best-selling work, is a magicalstory told with stunning simplicity and power. It reveals a relationship somoving it will take your breath away. And it tells a haunting and beautifultruth about the unpredictability--and the wonder--of life.
Danielle Steel is one of the world's most popular and highly acclaimed authors, with over ninety international bestselling novels in print and more than 600 million copies of her novels sold. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina's life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless; and Pure Joy, about the dogs she and her family have loved. To discover more about Danielle Steel and her books visit her website at www.daniellesteel.com You can also connect with Danielle on Facebook at www.facebook.com/DanielleSteelOfficial or on Twitter: @daniellesteel
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- Publication date1995
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- ISBN 13 9780552142458
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