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Book Review of The Gift

The Gift
The Gift
Author: Danielle Steel
Genre: Romance
Book Type: Paperback
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From the Publisher:

On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-boundbus into a small midwestern town. She doesn't intend to stay. She is justpassing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a storythat you will never forget.

The time is the 1950s, when life was simpler, people still believed in dreams,and family was, very nearly, everything. The place is a small midwestern townwith a high school and a downtown, a skating pond and a movie house. And on atree-lined street in the heartland of America, an extraordinary set of eventsbegins to unfold. And gradually what seems serendipitous is tinged withpurpose. A happy home is shattered by a child's senseless death. A lovingmarriage starts to unravel. And a stranger arrives--a young woman who willtouch many lives before she moves on. She and a young man will meet and fallin love. Their love, so innocent and full of hope, helps to restore a family'sdreams. And all of their lives will be changed forever by the precious giftshe leaves them.

The Gift, Danielle Steel's thirty-third best-selling work, is a magicalstory told with stunning simplicity and power. It reveals a relationship somoving it will take your breath away. And it tells a haunting and beautifultruth about the unpredictability--and the wonder--of life.