Author:Danielle Steel
For Maxine Williams, being married to Blake was an amazing adventure. Brilliant, charismatic, and wholly unpredictable, as an entrepreneur he had made millions and grabbed headlines. His only shortcoming was as a husband, and now they have worked out an odd but amicable divorce, and share three children they both adore. Blake gets to keep his globe-trotting lifestyle - dating a succession of beautiful, famous and very young women - while Maxine raises their kids in Manhattan and pursues her passion, working as a child psychiatrist. Then, everything changes...
Maxine finds a new love just as a tragedy transforms Blake from carefree playboy to compassionate, responsible grown-up. He wants Maxine in his life again - as a partner in a humanitarian project that could affect countless lives. But Maxine is on the cusp of a new life and almost certain that Blake, a.k.a. the Rogue, is a man capable of doing anything - except change...Or is he?
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