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Mixed Blessings
Mixed Blessings
Jul 17, 2025 4:49 AM

Author:Danielle Steel

Mixed Blessings

After the wedding of Diana Goode and Andrew Douglas, Diana teases that they will make a baby on their honeymoon. But long afterward, she is still not pregnant. As Diana and Andrew wait out each month only to be bitterly disappointed, they are forced to question just how much they are willing to go through to have a baby.

Charlie Winwood dreams of a house filled with children. His bride, party-girl actress Barbie Mason, has other ideas. When he discovers he is sterile, Charlie has to rethink his deepest values — and his marriage to a woman who shares none of his dreams.

After ten years of living together, Pilar Graham, a prominent Santa Barbara attorney, marries Judge Brad Coleman, who is nineteen years her senior and father of two grown children. They are happy with their comfortable life together, à deux, until Pilar begins to wonder if she will someday regret not having a baby with Brad. Are they crazy to begin now — with Brad about to become a grandfather and Pilar with a busy career, and in her early forties, possibly putting herself at risk?

Danielle Steel weaves a powerful tale of three couples who face decisions about having children that will test, in unexpected ways, the ties that bind them as lovers, partners and friends.

Reviews

The Discworld novels have always been among the most serious of comedies, the most relevant and real of fantasies

—— Independent

Funny, delightfully inventive, and refuses to lie down in its genre

—— Observer

Warm, silly, compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world

—— Evening Standard

Still extraordinary, still brilliant

—— Metro

Even at a time when so many good and interesting novels are coming out, hers stand out as performances of real originality and extraordinary promise

—— John Bayley

Wonderful rites-of-passage novel... where the author's blossoming Sapphic nature leads her to eschew her mothers proffered favourite

—— Mariella Frostrup

It is very funny, with an Alan Bennett sort of humour, beautifully written, quirky and likely to cause much tuttutting in conservative quarters

—— Daily Mail

This lesbian coming of age story set in northern England doesn't seem to have aged a bit

—— Independent

An instant classic

—— Rosemary Goring , Herald

You'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
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