Danielle Steel

Happy Birthday Danielle Steel

Publisher Marketing: Valerie Wyatt is the queen of gracious living and the arbiter of taste with a successful TV show. Since her long-ago divorce, she s worked hard to reach the pinnacle of her profession and to create a camera-ready life in her Fifth Avenue penthouse. So why is she so depressed? All the hours with her personal trainer, the careful work of New York s best hairdressers, cosmetic surgeons, and her own God-given bone structure and great looks can t fudge the truth or her lies about it: Valerie is turning sixty. Valerie s daughter, April, has no love life, no rest, and no prospect of that changing in the foreseeable future. Her popular one-of-a-kind restaurant in downtown New York, where she is chef and owner, consumes every ounce of her attention and energy. Ready or not, though, April s life is about to change, in a tumultuous transformation that begins the morning it hits her: She s thirty. And what does she have to show for it? A restaurant, no man, no kids. Jack Adams once threw a football like a guided missile. Twelve years after retiring from the NFL, he is the most charismatic sports analyst on TV, a man who has his pick of the most desirable twentysomething women. But after a particularly memorable Halloween party, Jack wakes up on his fiftieth birthday, his back thrown out of whack, feeling every year his age. A terrifying act of violence, an out-of-the-blue blessing, and two extremely unlikely love affairs soon turn lives inside out and upside down. In a novel brimming with warmth and insight, beginning on one birthday and ending on another, Valerie, April, and Jack discover that life itself can be a celebration and that its greatest gifts are always a surprise." Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2011 pg. 46 (EAN 9780385340304, Hardcover) Library Journal 02/01/2011 pg. 46 (EAN 9780385340304, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Steel, Danielle Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world s most popular authors, with over 600 million copies of her novels in print. Her many international bestsellers include Prodigal Son, Pegasus, A Perfect Life, Power Play, Winners, First Sight, Until the End of Time, The Sins of the Mother, Friends Forever, Betrayal, and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina s life and death, A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless, and Pure Joy, about the dogs she and her family have loved. Contributor Bio:  Dawe, Angela Angela Dawe's work includes film, television, theater, and improvisational comedy, as well as audiobook narration. Among Angela's recordings are "The Sheen on the Silk" by Anne Perry and "Savor the Moment" by Nora Roberts.