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Irresistible Forces
Author: Danielle Steel

Danielle Steel's forty-seventh bestselling novel is very much about the tides of our times, changes and responsibilities in the workplace pull two people in different directions, sweeping them into new lives and changed worlds----. — Irresistible Forces — For fourteen years, Steve and Meredith Whitman have sustained a marriage of passion an...  more »d friendship - despite the demands of two all-consuming careers.  Meredith, an investment banker, has achieved partnership in one of Wall Street's top firms.  Steve A gifted physician, chose an urban trauma ward over the big money he could have earned elsewhere.  The only thing missing in their lives is children.  Steve longs for them.  But Meredith keeps putting off motherhood, saying she isn't ready and doesn't have time.  Not yet.  Especially now that she has been offered an extraordinary opportunity, a chance to reach for the brass ring - in San Francisco, three thousand miles away.  Meredith is thrilled and surprised when Steve urges her to accept a top position at an exciting young high-tech company.  Traditionally, men's careers forces families to move to new cities, compelling their wives to abandon friends, home, and lives to follow.  But Steve is more than willing to uproot himself. Saying he'll join her as he can find a new job himself, they can begin their family at last.

Neither Steve nor Meredith had reckoned on the frustrations of a bi-coastal marriage, as Steve's job keeps him in New York for months longer than planned.  Weekends together, their lifeline, fall prey to their hectic schedules.  Alone in San Francisco, Meredith is spending long hours at the office with her boss, charismatic entrepreneur Callan Dow.  Steve working late shifts at the hospital, grabbing an occasional dinner with a new colleague, a doctor raising a daughter on her own.  Almost unnoticed, Steve and Meredith have begun living separate lives in increasingly separate worlds.  And despite the best of intentions, irresistible forces begin to tear their lives and hearts apart.

With unerring insight, Danielle Steel explores what happens when lives that fit together like delicately balanced puzzles are shifted, changed, and drift apart.  Only time can tell who and what they will become as life sweeps them onward and deposits them on new, sometimes frightening, and often exciting shores.  Who survives, is at the core of Irresistible Forces.

ISBN-13: 9780440224860
ISBN-10: 0440224861
Publication Date: 10/31/2000
Pages: 384
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3.5 stars, based on 114 ratings

Publisher: Dell
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Sue E. (Susanaque) - , reviewed Irresistible Forces on 8/7/2007 + 422 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

How to handle two busy careers on two different coasts. A wonderful Danielle Steel Book.

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Patricia S. (ragdollmom) reviewed Irresistible Forces on 12/11/2006 + 92 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

Two people with totally different careers are married and in love. But when her career takes a different path, necessitating a move to California while he stays in New York City, they begin to drift apart. Danielle Steel is careful as she draws the characters in her story, giving the reader a meticulous picture of each. We watch as the story plays itself out, Meredith and Steve try to make their marriage work, and their increased maturity as hard times come. A really wonderful book, and I enjoyed it very much.

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Stephanie S. (punkinema) - , reviewed Irresistible Forces on 3/5/2007 + 305 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

Too much mundane stuff - book drug a lot. I didn't like how it ended either. Another wealthy heroine too. ugh.

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Rita P. reviewed Irresistible Forces on 4/7/2007 + 50 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

typical danielle steele-always good

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Christine P. (chrissy77) reviewed Irresistible Forces on 8/13/2007 + 149 more book reviews

Having had 46 previous bestsellers, Danielle Steel knows a good plot recipe when she's got one--namely, take a smart, beautiful woman who is dissatisfied with her loving but stuffy husband, add a romantic, usually older man with a true appreciation of her inner soul, then sit back and watch the melodrama unfold. In this latest novel, our heroine Meredith Whitman is a career-driven investment banker, our husband Steve a sweet physician, and our other man, Cal Dow, a high-tech business Midas. When Cal offers Meredith the perfect job in San Francisco, Steve encourages her to move across country, and promises to follow her as soon as he can. Meredith and Steve's marriage begins to crack under the pressures of the distance, and soon "irresistible forces" come into play. Don't expect profundity, although Danielle Steel can make even the most sordid affairs seem romantic, or at least entertaining.

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Patricia H. (ladyunicorn) - , reviewed Irresistible Forces on 3/1/2007 + 50 more book reviews

when carrers tear lives apart, despite the best intentions.

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Denell W. (Chitimacha-Princess) reviewed Irresistible Forces on 7/29/2006 + 586 more book reviews

Wonderful story! Highly recommended!

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