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A Good Woman (Large Print)
A Good Woman - Large Print
Author: Danielle Steel
ISBN-13: 9780739494684
ISBN-10: 0739494686
Publication Date: 2008
Pages: 529
Rating:
  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
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4.5 stars, based on 5 ratings
Publisher: Doubleday Large Print
Book Type: Hardcover
Large Print: Yes
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This book is about what makes a "good woman." "Good," of course, applies to men as well as women, but we follow a young woman whose family is a member of upper New York society from the day she finds that the ship aboard which her family were returning from Europe, the Titanic, has sunk. She lost members of her family in that tragedy, and the book chronicles her maturation into a woman of good intent who realizes her goals in the best way, through due diligence.

She marries her dear love and finds herself involved in a scandal over which she has no control. She volunteers as a medic in France before the US joined the Allies in WWI, where her years of volunteer work in hospitals and on Ellis Island serve her well. She enters medical school, following her strongest desires, but returns as a medical volunteer when that war drags on and the number of casualties is too much to be borne.

Things happen to her, as they will to everyone, and how she deals with each crisis is the core of this book. In the end, of course, her life is well lived and she reaps rewards she could never have foreseen.

It was a good read, not particularly done in the old formula style Steel used so succesfully, and I look forward to seeing the movie!
reviewed A Good Woman (Large Print) on
One of the best Danielle Steel books I have read. The characters are real, the story is captivating.