Product Description: Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, but everything changed on an April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic changed her family and her world forever. Finding strength within her grief, Annabelle pours herself into volunteer work, igniting a passion for medicine that would shape the course of her life.
But for Annabelle, first love, and a seemingly idyllic marriage, will soon bring grief caused by the secrets of her husband. Betrayed, and pursued by undeserved scandal, Annabelle flees New York for war-ravaged France, hoping to lose herself in a life of service. There, in the heart of the First World War, in a groundbreaking field hospital run by women, Annabelle finds her true calling, studying medicine and saving lives. And when the war ends, Annabelle begins a new life in Paris – now a doctor, a mother, her past almost forgotten... until a fateful meeting opens her heart to the world she had left behind. Finding strength in the most unlikely of friendships, pulling together the broken fragments of her life, Annabelle will return to New York one more time -- this time a changed woman, a woman of substance, infused with life's experience, building a future filled with hope...out of the rich soil of the past.
Danielle Steel A Good woman Very good book. I enjoy Danielle Steel's books, but they are beginning to be very predictable.
One of Danielle Steel's best books ever Once again Danielle Steel has shown why she is one of the most read authors i 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 in hospitals and among immmigrants 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 under 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 bok. 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 frst 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.
Average Book, Lots of Repetition, AGAIN! Steel once again writes a story of a character who loses loved ones on the Titantic. Been there done that.
The book is mediocre, at best. The main character, in typical Steel style faces lots of tragedies, but the way the story is written, it just doesn't draw the reader in. She could have made it more interesting as this female character becomes a physician. But...it isn't interesting.
As in the Steel's books over the last 5-7 years, since she pumps them out in record time, this one is filled with repetition. Over and over the same words saying the same thing. I read this book in a day and a half. It seems most of her books could qualify for novellas. I wonder if she gets paid by the word??
Get this from the library, save your money.
Wow - what a bad book I have never read a Danielle Steel book before, but if this is any indication of her writing, I will never read another as long as I live. My husband bought this book for me at Costco and was very excited to give it to me, as he thought it sounded interesting. According to the jacket write-up, it should have been interesting. What starts out as a great premise for a book turns out to be boring, trite, lacking in descriptive detail, and repetitive. It was as if we had to keep being reminded, chapter after chapter, about the same information from earlier in the book; as if we forgot what had previously happened in the story. I see Ms. Steel has written a slew of previous novels, many of which were apparently very popular. Maybe she's getting tired, or maybe she's getting paid by the word or something. The only reason I finished this book was, well I'm not sure. Maybe hope that at any moment it would get good. Well, it didn't.
fine early twentieth century saga The Worthington family is at the top of Fifth Ave and Newport society. The patriarch is an affluent banker; his wife is a leader of the upper crust; and their two children are highly regarded. Everything changes when the Titanic goes down in 1912 as the patriarch and the son die in the tragedy leaving behind nineteen years old Annabelle and her mom to grieve their loss.
A banking colleague of her late dad Josiah Millbank kindly offers marriage to Annabelle; she accepts. Two years later having never made love, Josiah informs his young wife that he has syphilis and demands a divorce because he wants to be with his male lover. Annabelle says no so Josiah files for a divorce on the grounds of adultery. Everyone assumes the kind banker is the victim leaving Annabelle a pariah. She goes to Paris to start over hoping to become a doctor based on her volunteer work at Ellis Island.
Annabelle makes the historical tale fun to read as her strength shines through even when her reputation is unfairly destroyed. The plight of women in high society just prior to WW I comes into deep focus by the way Annabelle's peers react to first the Titanic tragedy, then her marriage, and finally the accusations. Fans will enjoy Danielle Steele's fine early twentieth century saga of a woman who could quote Sinatra's That's Life because Annabelle knows that "Some people get their kicks, Stompin' on a dream" but she also would sing "Each time I find myself, flat on my face, I pick myself up and get back in the race".
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