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Great story! The book is hard to put down!
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Excellent Book. I have had this book for years and never read it because I thought Danielle Steel's books had become all the same. I was wrong! This is a great book very entertaining. Always changing and keeping you involved.
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Incredible book! I love the story of William and Sarah!
This is the FIRST Danielle Steel I ever read - a long time ago!! It will always have a senitmental place in my heart, and I seem to compare all her other stories to this one.
In Jewels, Danielle Steel takes the reader through five eventful decades that include war, passion, and international intrigue.
Very exciting! Filled with romance and adventure!
A smashing story of a good woman triumphing over adversity.
this book takes a reader through five eventful decades of war, passion, and intrigue.
a must read...
My favorite Danielle Steel.
I enjoyed reading this book.
On Sarah Whitfield's seventy-fifth birthday,memories take her back to New York in the 1930s.To a marriage that ends after a year,leaving Sarah shattered.A trip to Europe with her parents does little to raise her spirits,until she meets William,Duke of Whitfield.In time,despite her qualm,William insists on giving up his distant right to the British throne to make Sarah his duchess and his wife.
On their honeymoon,the newlyweds buy an old French chateau,but not long after,the war begins.William joins the allied forces,leaving Sarah,their first child,an infant,and their second child on the way,in France.Sarah survives the terror of the Occupation,unwavering in her belief that her missing-in-action husband is still alive.
After the war,as a gesture of goodwill,the Whitfields start buying jewels offered for sale by impoverished war survivors.The collection becomes the prestigious Whitfield's in Paris.Eventually,their jewelry businesss expands to London and Rome,as their family grows.Phillip,prideful and stubborn;Julian,charming and generous;Isabelle,rebellious and willfull;and Xavier,the final unexpected gift of their love.They each will find their own way,but will be drawn to the great house of gems their parents built.
In Jewel's Danielle Steel takes the reader through five eventful decades that include war,passion,and international intrigue
On their honeymoon,the newlyweds buy an old French chateau,but not long after,the war begins.William joins the allied forces,leaving Sarah,their first child,an infant,and their second child on the way,in France.Sarah survives the terror of the Occupation,unwavering in her belief that her missing-in-action husband is still alive.
After the war,as a gesture of goodwill,the Whitfields start buying jewels offered for sale by impoverished war survivors.The collection becomes the prestigious Whitfield's in Paris.Eventually,their jewelry businesss expands to London and Rome,as their family grows.Phillip,prideful and stubborn;Julian,charming and generous;Isabelle,rebellious and willfull;and Xavier,the final unexpected gift of their love.They each will find their own way,but will be drawn to the great house of gems their parents built.
In Jewel's Danielle Steel takes the reader through five eventful decades that include war,passion,and international intrigue
This is my favorite DS book! (And the movie is pretty good too!) The setting spans 50 years and is the story of love and war and a woman's struggle to keep her family together. If you love generational stories, this is the book for you!
Great book by Danielle Steel!
A story of 5 eventful decades telling the story of a family whose lives are woven into the fabric of history. It begins on the eve of Sarah Whitfield's seventy-fifth birthday. Good book.
In the Steel collectionoeuvre, which means works of art, is awk with following jewel metaphor , Jewels is merely a semiprecious gem. Set in the WW II era, the novel depicts the travails of its to elim dangler heroine, Sarah, Duchess of Whitfield. The beautiful debutante daughter of a wealthy American family, Sarah has endured the disgrace attending her divorce of her caddish first husband. Eventually she marries the charming and very rich Duke of Whitfield, who buys her a chateau in France. The rest of the novel follows the self-satisfied course of their usually happy since he's in prison camp at one point union. WW II offers Steel a chance to pump drama into this bland narrative, but she misses it. Sarah spends the war comfortably ensconced on the grounds of her chateau, looked out for by a solicitious German commander so polite she doesn't guess he has fallen in love with her. Meekly, he leaves the moment Sarah learns her husband, the duke, ? has survived a Nazi prison camp. After she nurses William back to health, their idyllic marriage placidly resumes. They are rich and envied. They eat well, dress well, live well, have or else mention first child above? children and open a jewelry store for amusement. The narrative's greatest conflict comes in the final chapters, when widowed Sarah has to deal with her unruly offspring. Costume jewelry has more sparkle than this uninspired tale.
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