12/29/2023 0 Comments Past perfect danielle steelHer German father and Portuguese mother were wealthy socialites living in New York, and so, from a young age, Danielle was surrounded by the rich and famous. Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel, better known as Danielle Steel, was born in 1947. First Danielle Steele book for me from memory. I enjoyed the narration, the characters, and the brief history moments intertwined throughout. if anything, the meals should have come from both dimensions. I understood the parity of different dimensions living together, but certainly not how they could eat the same food. The older children only ever had their respective partners. The youngest boy never had a single friend to the house in 3 years, that I recall. Did the ghosts scare away other potential buyers? Had no other family ever offered to buy it since it was a 20 room mansion up for a song. The house hadn't been lived in for "years", and while it doesn't say that previous tenants didn't stay due to the ghosts, it indicates this is the reason it's uninhabited and up for sale. A wealthy family wouldn't do this, and being the owner of a 100+ year old house (not a mansion), I wouldn't either. Buying a mansion, for example, for a "steal" that included furniture and fittings, that needed nothing more than paint and a bit of a kitchen make-over, with IKEA products non the less seems highly improbable. I enjoyed the premise of this book, and it has so much potential, but there were too many things I just couldn't get me head around. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina's life and death A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless Pure Joy, about the dogs she and her family have loved and the children's book Pretty Minnie in Paris. Her many international best sellers include Magic, Blue, Undercover, Country, Prodigal Son, Pegasus, A Perfect Life, Power Play, Winners, and other highly acclaimed novels. Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world's most popular authors, with over 650 million copies of her novels in print. Past Perfect is Danielle Steel at her bewitching best, a novel for the ages. Within these enchanted rooms, it is at once 1917 and a century later, where the Gregorys realize they have been given a perfect gift - beloved friends and the wisdom to shape their own future with gratitude and grace from a fascinating past. They have much to teach each other, as the Gregorys watch the past unfold while living their own modern-day lives. The two families are delighted to share elegant dinners and warm friendship. All very much alive in spirit - and visible to the Gregorys and no one else. In the ensuing days, they meet the large and lively family who lived there a century ago: distinguished Bertrand Butterfield and his gracious wife, Gwyneth their sons Josiah and little Magnus daughters Bettina and Lucy formidable Scottish matriarch Augusta and her eccentric brother, Angus. The original inhabitants suddenly appear for a few brief minutes. Shocked by an earthquake the night they arrive, the past and present suddenly collide for them in the elegant mansion filled with tender memories and haunting portraits. ![]() He accepts it without consulting his wife and buys a magnificent, irresistibly underpriced historic Pacific Heights mansion as their new home. ![]() But everything changes when Blake is offered a dream job he can't resist as CEO of a start-up in San Francisco. Sybil and Blake Gregory have established a predictable, well-ordered Manhattan life - she as a cutting-edge design authority and museum consultant, he in high tech investments - raising their teenagers, Andrew and Caroline, and six-year-old Charlie. ![]() From number one New York Times best-selling author Danielle Steel, Past Perfect is a spellbinding story of two families living 100 years apart who come together in time in a startling moment, opening the doors to rare friendship and major events in early 20th-century history.
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