Krug, Nora (July 2, 2015). "Danielle Steel: 'My books are more than a beach read' ". The Washington Post . Retrieved September 30, 2018.

Pernikahan dan karir Sam yg melesat membuat suasana jadi cerah, untuk tahu-tahu dibuat "jatuh" dengan peristiwa tak terduga......Pembunuhan. Solange dibunuh Sam, di depan anak-anaknya............... The book does an absolute justice to its title- Kaleidoscope, things change with the blink of an eye. Danielle Steele once again manages to take her readers by surprise. The book is full of unexpected twists and turns which leaves the readers breathless gasping for more... The only heart-breaking character was of Arthur. You hate him, you loathe him for not having been strong enough to care for the 3 girls. a b "The Lives of Danielle Steel: The Unauthorized Biography of America's #1 Best-Selling Author". Publishersweekly.com. October 1994 . Retrieved November 13, 2017.Donnally, Trish (February 26, 1998). "A New Chapter in Steel Romance". San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved April 19, 2007.

But then she meets 13-year old Blue. Like Ginny, he is alone in the world, and learning to trust again is hard for him. However, the pair begin to build a friendship that starts filling the void in their respective lives. Steger, Pat (August 11, 1999). "Steel, Perkins Separate After 17-Month Marriage". San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved April 19, 2007. Her first novel, Going Home, was published in 1973. The novel contained many of the themes that her writing would become well known for, including a focus on family issues and human relationships. Her relationship with her second husband influenced Passion's Promise and Now and Forever, the two novels that launched her career. [11] With the success of her fourth book, The Promise, she became a participant in San Francisco high society. [11] 1981–1996: Fame and expansion to new genres [ edit ]

Membaca buku ini bagaikan naik roller-coaster. Naik, turun, naik, turun lagi. Naik-turunnya kehidupan yang terjadi pada sebuah keluarga. Dan semuanya terjadi dengan cepat. Wew.

a b Baker, Kenneth (September 30, 2003). "Danielle Steel to open gallery for lesser-knowns". San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved April 19, 2007. A story of three girls left to be on their own when their actor father kills his pretty wife and commits suicide himself. As Sam Walker returned home from war with a beautiful wife, Solange, nobody not even they themselves could have ever foreseen what life held ahead for them. They had three beautiful daughters, Hillary, Alexandria and Megan. With a cruel twist of fate, the children suddenly find themselves orphaned and eventually get separated. The circumstances in which they had lost their parents was maddening enough, but life wasn’t done with them yet. They reunite after thirty years only to find there was more to their past life. Di awal sudah disuguhkan suasana muram ala perang. Obrolan antar prajurit di dalam bunker saat Perang Dunia II, antara Sam Walker dan Arthur Patterson. Lalu disuguhkan adegan "manis" saat prajurit Sam Walker jatuh cinta terhadap wanita Perancis, Solange, yang digambarkan sang mempesona dengan rambut merah menyalanya. Lalu muram kembali saat Sam harus maju bertempur lagi. Cerah sesaat ketika perang usai untuk kembali muram saat Sam harus kembali ke Amerika dan terpaksa berpisah sementara dengan Solange.

Distinguished Service in Mental Health Award" (first time awarded to a non-physician) from New York Presbyterian Hospital, Department of Psychiatry and Columbia University Medical School and Cornell Medical College, May 2009. Her works consist of novels, non-fiction, picture books, and two series of children's books: the Max & Martha series and the Freddie series. Steel, Danielle (February 10, 2009). "Fear of Flying". daniellesteel.net . Retrieved January 23, 2018. Danielle Steel has written more than 185 books, including over 141 novels. [46] Her books have been translated into 43 languages and can be found in 69 countries across the globe. [7] Steel, Danielle (1991). Max and Grandma and Grampa and Winky. Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. ISBN 9780385303620.

Kort, C. (2007). A to Z of American Women Writers. Facts On File, Incorporated. p.311. ISBN 9781438107936 . Retrieved October 6, 2014. Steel spends two to three years on each book, juggling multiple projects at once. According to Steel, once she has an idea for a story, her first step is to make notes, which are mostly about the characters. She told The New York Times in 2018: "I make notes for a while before I start work on the outline. The notes are usually more about the characters. I need to know the characters really well before I start — who they are, how they think, how they feel, what has happened to them, how they grew up." [42] In a 2019 interview with The Guardian, she reported often spending 20- to 30-hour periods on her typewriter, gaining her attention and criticism. [43] [44] When a beautiful young Frenchwoman and a brilliant American actor meet in wartime Paris, their love begins like a fairy tale but ends in tragedy. Suddenly orphaned, their three children are cruelly separated. Megan, the baby, adopted by a family of comfortable means, becomes a doctor in the rural Appalachia. Alexandra, raised in lavish wealth, marries a powerful man whose pride is in his pedigree and who assumes that Alexandra is her parents' natural offspring. Neither of them has the remotest suspicion that she is adopted, or what turbulent tragedy lurks in her past. And Hilary, oldest of the Walker children, remembers them all, and the grief that tore them apart and cast them into separate lives. Feeling the loss throughout her life, and unable to find her sisters, she builds an extraordinary career and has no personal life. How the Hell Has Danielle Steel Managed to Write 179 Books?". Glamour. May 9, 2019 . Retrieved September 22, 2019. Ginny was a promising TV news star when her life is brought to a devastating halt. Suddenly bereft of her family, she desperately tries to find something to live for.Danielle Steel's Desk Is Unlike Anything You've Ever Seen". vanityfair.com. Vanity Fair. October 2017 . Retrieved September 29, 2018. Second, John meets the middle daughter, Alexandra ( Patricia Kalember), who was adopted by Margaret ( Colleen Dewhurst), and currently resides in South Carolina as the wife of Senator Henry ( Terry O'Quinn). She has a rich social life and two lovely daughters, though feels that her husband treats her more as a servant than as a loving wife. When John arrives in town, he first speaks to Margaret, through whom he learns that Alexandra is not aware that she is adopted. Margaret tries to prevent John from telling Alexandra the truth, but realizing that she cannot, she decides to tell her daughter the truth herself. Alexandra assures Margaret that she still sees her as her real mother, though blames her that she never informed her about having two sisters. Henry feels that the situation could cause a scandal and ruin his political career. Despite his objection, Alexandra eagerly agrees to meet her sisters and Mr. Chapman at his Connecticut mansion. It all changes when a private investigator is asked to find the three girls by a guilt prone friend of their father's who is about to die and wishes to see them united. The story of Hillary makes you cry, the hardships that she goes through is extremely heart-wrenching and you feel sad for her, you understand all her fears, you understand why she never lets love inside her heart.