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. How the Hell Has Danielle Steel Managed to Write 179 Books?". Glamour. May 9, 2019 . Retrieved September 22, 2019. 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.

a b c d e L., Rosanne (July 2004). "Meet the Author: Danielle Steel". Reader's Club. Archived from the original on June 22, 2007 . Retrieved April 19, 2007. Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel is an American writer, best known for her romance novels. Danielle Steel has written 190 books, including over 141 novels. [1] [2] Her books have been translated into 43 languages and can be found in 69 countries across the globe. [3] Novels [ edit ] The story features the events of each girl's life. Separated after the death of their parents, each one is raised quite differently.Nichols, Michelle (February 22, 2008). "Author Danielle Steel had childhood dreams of becoming a nun". Reuters . Retrieved September 22, 2023.

But once I started it,I was totally engrossed into the way its story was enfolding, it being so gripping and heart wrenching at times that i could finally keep it down only once I had read the happy ending it so truly deserved. 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 doctor in the rural Appalachia. Alexandra, raised in lavish wealth, marries a powerful man whose pride is 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. When John Chapman, lawyer and prestigious private investigator, is asked to find these three women, he wonders why. Their parents’ only friend, he did nothing to keep them together as children and has been haunted by remorse all his life. The investigator follows a trail that leads from chic New York to Boston slums, from elegant Parisian salons to the Appalachian hills, to the place where the three sisters face each other and one more final, devastating truth before they can move on. Kaleidoscope by Danielle Steel – eBook Details At its core, Kaleidoscope follows a familiar pattern often found in Steel's works: a murder that sets in motion a series of events centered around loss and the unraveling of mysteries. The story revolves around two lovers who marry and start a family, only to be torn apart by a tragic misunderstanding. This heartbreaking incident results in the parents' untimely deaths and the subsequent separation of their children, each embarking on a distinct path in life. a b c d Chin, Paula (June 29, 1992). "Danielle Steel". People Magazine. Archived from the original on January 10, 2011 . Retrieved January 8, 2012.

To avoid comparisons to her previous novels, Steel does not write sequels. [13] Although many of her earliest books were released with initial print runs of 1 million copies, by 2004 her publisher had decreased the number of books initially printed to 650,000 due to the decline in book purchasing. However, her fan base was still extremely strong at that time, with Steel's books selling out atop charts worldwide. [39] Adaptations [ edit ]

a b Fleming, Michael (February 3, 1998). "Col helps Steel break into pic biz". Variety . Retrieved April 19, 2007. 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] It's set in mid and post WWII, and centers itself around the oldest child of three sisters, Hilary, who, when her parents tragically and abruptly disappear out of her life, is then separated and forced to live with new people, in a new environment foreign and unfamiliar to her. Separated from each other at a young age, they grow up without each other. The eldest, Hilary, will have to learn and grow with each new task she is faced with growing up, waiting for the day where she may possibly reunite with them once again, and the day where she confronts the person who tore her family apart. Danielle Steel's Desk Is Unlike Anything You've Ever Seen". vanityfair.com. Vanity Fair. October 2017 . Retrieved September 29, 2018. Her works consist of novels, non-fiction, picture books, and two series of children's books: the Max & Martha series and the Freddie series.At Patterson's mansion, the three women are happily reunited, and they have dinner with Chapman. Hilary, who feels the whole get-together is a charade, publicly blames Patterson for the death of her parents. She then goes on to explain that she witnessed her father strangling her mother to death, after she had admitted that she has been in love with Patterson for years, and was certain that Meagan is his child. Hilary then leaves the scene in tears. Patterson assures Meagan that he never knew that he was her father, and she calmly tries to process the information. Meagan decides to stay at his death bed, and before he dies, he apologizes for not being in her life. Hilary initially refuses to attend the funeral, but, as a gesture for accepting her past, finally shows up, aided by her new partner John.