Author:Danielle Steel
In life and love, it's never too late for a second chance...
As editor-in-chief of New York's leading fashion magazine, Fiona Monaghan was utterly content with her life, jetting back and forth between Manhattan and Europe-until the day John Anderson strolled into her office.A widower with two daughters, John was as conservative as Fiona was freewheeling, and was both amused and appalled by her world of high-strung designers, anorexic models, and Sir Winston, her snoring bulldog.
After Fiona impulsively invited John to the Paris couture shows, somewhere between the magic of the catwalk and the stroll along the Seine, she let him into her heart. Within weeks of their return to New York, John was making friends with Sir Winston - and Fiona was making room in her closets.
But when things take a turn for the worst, Fiona is set on a journey full of pain, revelation, and awakening as the curtain rises on a second act that Fiona never saw coming...
A dazzling tale of modern misadventures and career-crossed relationships that captures the heady magic of instant attraction, the challenges of change–and the hope that comes when we dare to do it all over again...
Exquisite craftsmanship
—— GuardianAn exquisite novel about four sisters living though a turbulent decade, during the Forties and Fifties, I'd put it in the 10 greatest books of the 20th century
—— David Mitchell , Daily ExpressA complex, detailed and agreeably gossipy book...The author's obvious nostalgia for this vanished world does not prevent him from looking objectively at its darker side and this, together with his artful blend of the exotic and the mundane, creates an absorbing and richly textured story
—— Sunday TimesA subtle, moving novel
—— The TimesA classic novel of a whole country about to turn on the terrible hinge of the war into modernity; its tone is elegiac and bleak
—— ObserverThe work of Tanizaki offers to us in the West one of the most valuable keys to understanding the Japanese crisis of identity
—— IndependentAn extraordinary book which can truly be said to break new ground
—— New Yorker