Bittersweet
by Danielle Steel
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Fiction. Literature. Romance. HTML:In Bittersweet, Danielle Steel has written a novel for our times, a story of choices and new beginnings.India Taylor lived in a world of manicured lawns and neatly maintained calendars: a merry-go-round of Little League, piano lessons, and Cape Cod summer vacations. With four wonderful children, India believed in commitment and sacrifice, just as she believed in Doug, the man she married 17 years before. For India, this was the promise she made, the life show more she had chosen—not the award-winning career as a photojournalist she once had. It was a choice she had never truly regretted. Until she begins to regret it with all her heart.
India couldn't pinpoint the exact moment. Perhaps it was the last time her agent called, begging her to take an assignment Doug insisted she turn down. Or perhaps it was when Doug told her he thought of her as a companion and someone to take care of their kids, and not much more. At that moment, the price of the sacrifices she'd made began to seem high.
And then, she met Paul Ward. A Wall Street tycoon married to a bestselling author, Paul lived life on his own terms, traveling the world on his own yacht. India hadn't planned to become Paul's friend. Anything more was unthinkable. Yet talking to Paul was so easy. India could share her dreams with him, and offer comfort when Paul suffers a heartbreak of his own. And while Paul urges India to reclaim her career, Doug is adamantly against it, determined to keep her tied to the home. But with Paul's encouragement, India slowly, painfully, begins to break free, and find herself again.
Rediscovering her creativity and her courage, India uses Paul like a beacon on the horizon, sharing intimate phone conversations with a man half a world away, a man who never stops reminding her of all that is possible for her. India is changing, and nothing in her life will ever be the same again. Not her marriage. Not her friendship with Paul. And when India is presented with an irresistible opportunity, she makes a heart-wrenching decision, leaving a safe, familiar place-and the people she loves there-to move into the terror of the unknown.
Bittersweet is her story, a story of freedom, of having dreams and making choices to find them. With unerring insight, Danielle Steel has created a moving portrait of a woman who dares to embark on a new adventure and the man who helps her get there. Her painful, exhilarating journey inspires us all. show less
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an interesting book about a photographer who gave up her career to have a family and her clod of a husband who is driving her away by his controlling attitude and lack of love toward her; with complications, of course
Bittersweet by Danielle Steel
This book is about India who gave up her world traveling and helping others in less fortunate countries with shelter and food and married Doug, he works on Wall Street.
They live in Westport, CT and he commutes to work daily. She gave up her job in the photography field when she had her first child. After others came along and they are grown and teens she wants to get a career back.
On the Cape she met others who have listened to what she's told them and they are behind her to pursue her dreams. The youngest child Sam just loves sailing and it brightens her to see him so happy doing it.
Paul has told her if she does go to work their marriage is over. Love that India is into photography and has always taken show more pictures. Love how she stands up for what she believes in...
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device). show less
This book is about India who gave up her world traveling and helping others in less fortunate countries with shelter and food and married Doug, he works on Wall Street.
They live in Westport, CT and he commutes to work daily. She gave up her job in the photography field when she had her first child. After others came along and they are grown and teens she wants to get a career back.
On the Cape she met others who have listened to what she's told them and they are behind her to pursue her dreams. The youngest child Sam just loves sailing and it brightens her to see him so happy doing it.
Paul has told her if she does go to work their marriage is over. Love that India is into photography and has always taken show more pictures. Love how she stands up for what she believes in...
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device). show less
When I first started this book, I didn't think I would like it at all. It ended up being not as bad as I thought it would be.
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A la protagonista de esta cautivadora novela la vida parece irle muy bien: lleva diecisiete años casada, es madre de dos hijos encantadores y vive holgadamente. Sin embargo, para eso ha tenido que sacrificar su individualidad y su profesión de fotógrafa. Su marido no entiende su insatisfacción, y tampoco le interesa demasiado. Ella tendrá que afrontar su futuro tomando una valiente decisión, pero no estará sola en la encrucijada...
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Danielle Steel was born in New York City on August 14, 1947. She studied literature, design, and fashion design - first at Parsons School of Design and later at New York University. Her first novel, Going Home, was published in 1972. Her other books include The House on Hope Street, The Wedding, Irresistible Forces, Granny Dan, Bittersweet, Mirror show more Image, The Klone and I, The Long Road Home, The Ghost, Special Delivery, The Ranch, His Bright Light, Southern Lights, Blue, Country, The Apartment, Property of a Noble Woman, The Mistress, Dangerous Games, Against All Odds, The Duchess, Fairytale, Fall From Grace, The Cast, The Good Fight, and Turning Point. A number of her novels have made major bestseller lists and have also been adapted into TV movies or miniseries. She also writes children's books including the Max and Martha series. In 2002, she was decorated by the French government as an Officer of the Order des Arts et des Letters for her contributions to world culture. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- Bittersweet
- Original publication date
- 1999
- People/Characters
- India Taylor; Paul Ward; Doug Taylor
- Epigraph
- Never settle for less than your dreams. Somewhere, sometime, someday, somehow, you'll find them.
- Dedication
- To Tom,
for the bitter
and the sweet.
with all my love,
d.s. - First words
- India Taylor had her camera poised as an unruly army of nine-year-old boys ran across the playing field after the soccer ball they had been heatedly pursuing.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And she knew he had come home to her at last, as he pulled her into his slicker with him, and kissed her.
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