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 One of Danielle Steel's best books ever November 25, 2008
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Once again Danielle Steel has shown why she is one of the most read authors in the world today.
"A Good Woman" is the story about 19 year old Annabelle Worthington, a young girl growing up among New York's upper classes, loved, protected and privileged. Until tragedy strikes and in the course of three years her life is shattered.
Annabelle, who has always been interested in medicine and has done volunteer work both in hospitals and among immigrants at Ellis Island, goes to France to volunteer in World War I. She works as a medic near the front, has a child out of wedlock in appalling circumstances and later becomes a physician and settles in Paris with her little daughter after the war.
Although Annabelle is a rich woman with a large inheritance in America, the fact is of no particular interest in the book. This is the story about a very special person. Pretty, yes, but also intelligent, strong and brave. In spite of the wealth and sheltered upbringing, she has more than her fair share of life's adversities and goes through it all with her head held high. Her life is forever changed and her secure world and naïve view of people never to be restored.
From the horrors of war to the glamour of post war Paris, the British aristocracy and dazzling New York - all in true Danielle Steel style - the main thing is Annabelle's story. What happens in her life and mind. What makes her the 32 year old doctor and mother who visits her home country for the first time ten years after she left in disgrace.
One of the best books Danielle Steel has ever written, filled with wisdom and funny bits of delicious humour.
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