Description

On the outside, Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blond, stylish, Faith has a life many would envy. Overcoming a childhood marked by tragedy, married to a successful investment banker and having raised two grown daughters, Faith has enjoyed her role as mother and wife, and the good life that emanates from their bustling Manhattan townhouse.

But every step of the way, Faith has carried within her a secret she could divulge to one. And with it, she has kept an even more painful secret from herself. For Faith, it is the sudden death of her stepfather – a man who, like her husband Alex, always remained just beyond her reach – that will touch off a journey of change and revelation.

At the funeral, painful memories flood back – and an old friend re-enters Faith’s life. Faith is greeting mourners when she hears a voice behind her and a single word that brings a quick smile to her face: Fred. Only one person, aside from her older brother, Jack, called her that Brad Patterson was Jack’s best friend, a long, lanky boy who teased, tormented, and protected Faith when they fancied themselves The Three Musketeers as kids.

When Jack died years later, Faith and Brad came together again in their common, inconsolable grief, then lost touch once more amid the demands of families and busy lives a continent apart.

Now a lawyer in California, Brad has re-entered Faith’s life just as she is making a decision that plunges her marriage into crisis. Determined to fulfil a long-held desire for a career of her own, Faith applies to law school against her husband’s wishes, igniting a barrage of anger and recrimination.

Faith’s only solace is the correspondence she has begun with Brad, a man trapped in an empty marriage of his own, a friend she once lost and has found again. Soon emails are flying between them, bridging 3000 miles, sharing much-needed friendship, support, laughter. And as these two childhood friends rediscover each other, something extraordinary is beginning to happen. In the safety of their friendship, Brad will find the courage to make a decision he should have made years before.

And Faith, too, is changing, beginning to believe in herself – and in her right to grab hold of her dreams. Gathering a strength she never knew she had, Faith is finally ready to face the most painful step of all: of sharing the secret that has long been haunting her, and truly opening up her heart for the first time in her life.

With unerring insight into the hearts of husbands and wives, lovers and families, Danielle Steel tell a wise and moving story of the secrets that wound and the choices that heal – and of the second chances that come only once in a lifetime.

Author Biography:
Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world’s most popular authors, with over 450 million copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include Lone Eagle, Journey, The House on Hope Street, The Wedding, Irresistible Forces, Granny Dan, Bittersweet, The Klone and I, Mirror Image, The Long Road Home, The Ghost and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina’s life and death.

Key Features:
Author(s): Danielle Steel
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Date of Publication: 4/11/2002
Language: English
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 593047087
ISBN-13: 9780593047088
Subject: General & Literary Fiction

Publication Data:
Place of Publication: London
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bantam Press
Out-of-print date: 17/02/2005

Dimensions:
Width: 156 mm
Height: 234 mm

Condition:
Very good
Some discolouration from ageing but otherwise in very good condition