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A Perfect Life
Mar 28, 2026 11:32 PM

Author:Danielle Steel

A Perfect Life

An icon in the world of television news, Blaise McCarthy seems to have it all: beauty, intelligence and courage. But privately there is a story she has protected for years . . .

Blaise’s daughter Salima, blinded by juvenile diabetes, lives at a year-round boarding school. But when the school suddenly closes, she returns home to Blaise’s New York apartment with her new carer, Simon. As new challenges change the way they see one another, the bond between mother and daughter deepens as never before.

Then Blaise’s personal and professional worlds collide, and the well-guarded secrets of her home life are exposed. Suddenly her life is no longer perfect, but real. Can mother and daughter together learn how to face a world they can’t control?

An unforgettable novel about a mother and daughter trading perfect for real – from the incomparable storyteller Danielle Steel.

Danielle Steel is famous for her inspirational stories about family, love and life. Her novels will be enjoyed by readers of Penny Vincenzi, Jodi Picoult and Diane Chamberlain.

Reviews

Sex and horses: who could ask for more?

—— Sunday Telegraph

‘Fun, sexy and unputdownable – a classic’

—— Marian Keyes

Joyful and mischievous. I know of no woman my age who won't admit that Rupert Campbell-Black nearly ruined them for other men for life . . .

—— Jojo Moyes

Jilly Cooper is the funniest and the sharpest writer there is. A heroine, an influence and a legend to half my generation of female authors (the fun half)

—— Jenny Colgan

Jilly Cooper’s writing is hilarious, witty, wise, astute, flawlessly entertaining and a celebration of all that is the most fun about being British

—— Helen Fielding, author of BRIDGET JONES DIARY

Exhilarating, irresistible and one of our nation’s most beloved novels. If you’re about to read Riders for the first time, you’re in for a joyous experience!

—— Jill Mansell

It's all here: swooning romance, skulduggery in the stables and, yes, bonking; all set in the Cotswold countryside. Tally ho!

—— Elle

Blockbusting fiction at its best

—— Mail on Sunday

I defy anyone not to enjoy her book. It is a delight from start to finish

—— Auberon Waugh , Daily Mail

Has any book of the past 70 years given as much pleasure as Cooper's rumpy-pumpy, show-jumping classis?

—— The Times

I ADORED it. It's the most fun I've had with a book in a long time, and I love how she writes - so many dazzling sentences and phrases.

—— Marian Keyes

Sparkling savage and remarkably sexy.

—— Daisy Goodwin

A wickedly funny, biting satire of Notting Hill's basement-digging class. My absolute guiltiest read this summer.

—— Plum Sykes

The Jane Austen of W11

—— Scotsman on Winter Games

An addictively funny read about the lives of the rich and richer. Four stars

—— Heat on Notting Hell

Smart, pacy, and hysterically funny

—— Deirdre O’Brien , Sunday Mirror

This provocative debut explores whether monogamy is all it’s cracked up to be

—— Glamour

Witty, sparkling and a dissection of monogamy and happiness... Entertaining

—— Lady

Here is a heroine who scores a solid ten on the sass-o-meter, and she made the whole reading experience a hoot… Guilt-free fun with this deliciously rampant romp.

—— Sarah Hughes , Heat
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