Author:Danielle Steel
When two hopelessly mismatched people share a love for art, a passion for each other and a city like Paris, nothing is truly impossible...or is it?
Sasha is a traditionalist - now widowed, she knows she was married to the most wonderful man in the world.Liam is an artist, half-in and half-out of a marriage that his own impossibly impulsive behaviour has helped tear apart. But while Sasha has been methodically building her father's Parisian art gallery into an intercontinental success story, Liam has been growing into one of the most original and striking young painters of his time. So while the two are utterly unalike, the miracle of art brings them together.
Sasha tries to keep Liam hidden from her grown children and well-heeled clientele as she commutes between New York and Paris.Liam tries to bring out the wild streak that Sasha barely knows she has. Then a family tragedy suddenly alters Liam's life, forcing a choice and a sacrifice that neither one of them could have expected.Giving up now might just be the most impossible thing of all...
A skilful Steel pricks at all our senses
—— Sunday ExpressPretty damn gripping, and fans of weepie novels will adore the touching love-story element. Totally addictive
—— HEATTremendous, compassionate, exuberant
—— IndependentThe reader feels there really is something at stake - birth, love, death, war, loyalty
—— GuardianTremendousm compassionate, exuberant
—— Michael Bywater , IndependentWonderful rites-of-passage novel... where the author's blossoming Sapphic nature leads her to eschew her mothers proffered favourite
—— Mariella FrostrupIt is very funny, with an Alan Bennett sort of humour, beautifully written, quirky and likely to cause much tuttutting in conservative quarters
—— Daily MailThis lesbian coming of age story set in northern England doesn't seem to have aged a bit
—— IndependentAn instant classic
—— Rosemary Goring , HeraldYou'll find everything you need to know about mustering the courage to embrace your true self and live life without fear in Winterson's hugely engaging semi-autobiographical novel
—— Mariella Frostrup , Sunday Times