The House On Hope Street

Aug 2, 2025 8:22 AM

Author:Danielle Steel

Life was good for Liz and Jack Sutherland. In eighteen years of marriage they had built a family, a successful law practice, and a warm happy home near San Francisco, in a house on Hope Street. But one Christmas morning, in the midst of joy and children's laughter, tragedy strikes, and Liz is left alone, facing painful questions in the face of unbearable loss. How can she go on without her husband, her partner, her best friend?

The months pass, and Liz finds the strength to return to work and tend to her children. Then a devastating accident sends her oldest son to hospital - and brings a doctor called Bill Webster into her life. As the long days of summer blend into autumn, a new relationship offers new hope. With the anniversary of her husband's death approaching, Liz will face one more crisis before she can look back at a year of mourning and change - and ahead to the beginning of a new life, in the house on Hope Street.

Reviews

Giono gives us the world we live in, a world of dream, passion and reality

—— Henry Miller

There is still dew on this world of Giono's; he looks out on it and records his impressions of it almost as if he were the first man seeing it. The emotions of his people are refreshingly forthright and uncomplicated, and in his pages man stands in his natural relation to the animate and inanimate world about him

—— New York Times

Jean Giono is one of the giants of modern French letters. He is the poet of the French countryside and of the French peasant, of man and nature, and the relation of man to nature. His books stand apart; there is nothing else in all French literature quite like them

—— Living Age

As with Faulkner, we have blood, night, violence, myth. To read Giono is to be immersed

—— François Nourissier

Cheever writes a restrained, half -mocking hymn to the delusions of comfortable America which is a pleasure to read

—— Guardian

Cheever's intelligence and honesty powerfully communicate the sensations of being alive

—— Sunday Times

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