Author:Danielle Steel
A young woman's dream, an old man's gift, and the surprises that await us behind every closed door. . .
The house on the hill outside San Francisco was magnificent, built in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. When Sarah, a perfectly sensible lawyer, walks through its empty rooms, she is drawn to the once-grand mansion in a way she cannot explain.- to a drama that first unfolded in war-torn France, and to a history she never knew she had.
Using an unexpected legacy, Sarah takes on the dilapidated house and its mysteries.
With the help of architect Jeff Parker Sarah brings the exquisite house back to life, and as one relationship shatters and another begins, she discovers a whole new future.
A novel of daring and hope, of embracing life and taking chances ...
Steel goes straight for fundamentals of human nature... she has her finger on the button when it comes to modern emotions - and her readers can expect a good cry
—— Daily MailFor drama that tugs at the heartstrings, try Danielle Steel
—— TodayA master of his discipline rightly hailed as one of the best historical novelists writing today
—— Daily ExpressCoolly exact with his characters and their honourable motives. His aim is to make the destruction of the sailor by his love seem as inevitable as the ocean
—— GuardianMishima's imagery is as artful as a Japanese flower arrangement
—— New York TimesThe 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