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Bungalow 2
Author: Danielle Steel

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Publisher: Delacorte Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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ISBN-13: 9780385338318 - ISBN-10: 0385338317
Publication Date: 6/26/2007
Pages: 352

Book Description:
In Steel's latest, 42-year-old Tanya Harris loves her life as a mother of three, wife of a dashing San Francisco lawyer and moderately successful writer of short stories and soap opera scripts. She has long given up on her dream of writing a screenplay, but then her agent calls with a dream offer: a major director wants her and her alone to write the script for a new high-profile film. Tanya's first reaction is distress (her twin daughters are about to start their senior year, and her son is making the transition to his freshman year at UC Santa Barbara; how can she leave them?), but her detailed deliberations are cut short by her husband, who convinces her that this is her big opportunity. In Hollywood, Tanya's cosseted in every possible way, and she takes to the work immediately. But the weekend flights home aren't enough, and her worst fear is realized when her husband strays. Steel follows Tanya as she copes with domestic upheaval, all the time pushing ahead with her blossoming screenwriting career. Steel's characters spend a lot of time contemplating problems, and Tanya is especially adept at hand-wringing. Steel's many loyal readers will be entertained by this story of a dedicated mother and wife who embarks on a series of life-altering adventures in Hollywood.

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JANET R. (janabug) wrote on 7/10/2007...

4 member(s) found this review helpful.

Book starts out very slow
Not a typical Danielle Steel novel
Does not disappoint about half way through
Good story just slow getting started

Anna S. (Bustercaesarmom) wrote on 7/20/2007...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

A bit of a disappointment. Like many of her newer books, this book seems to rely on old plotlines with new characters, rather than entirely new ideas. I felt like the ending was very rushed.

Cynthia S. (moocowbooks) wrote on 1/13/2009...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

I really enjoyed this book, Danielle Steel tends to write the same story over and over, but for some reason this one stood out to me.

Erica L. wrote on 7/11/2008...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Great read. Couldn't put the book down. I got lost in her world which is all about a book... Can't wait to read another of Danielle Steel's!

Kathy D. (kathyrvt) wrote on 6/28/2008...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Really a good read. Even though you are pretty sure what is going to happen, you have to turn the page to make sure that's the way it did happen! Very much enjoyed it!

Madge C. (dmconn1) wrote on 10/19/2007...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Another great book by Danielle Steel. She captivates our hearts as she introduces the star studded world of Hollywood producers and actors. Her words are descriptive. I could not put this book down! As always, I wait anxiously for her next novel.

Melanie P. (MelanieGG) wrote on 9/13/2007...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

The Hollywood offer was too good to refuse, but freelance writer Tanya Harris realized that it was also fraught with risks. Accepting the screenwriting job meant that the 42-year-old Marin County mom would be separated for long periods from her husband and her three teenage children. In time, her worries grow into bitter truths; her husband takes a lover and her relationships with her children endure predictable bumps. But her new role as a Tinsel Town scriptwriter also creates dazzling possibilities, including -- perhaps, just perhaps -- a happy ending. Vintage Danielle Steel.


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Janet L. (proudgrandma) wrote on 10/5/2009...


BUNGALOW 2

The phone call came on a hot July day--a day like any other for Marin County mom and freelance writer Tanya Harris. But this call--from Tanya's agent--was anything but ordinary, offering a once-in[a-lifetime opportunity: the chance to write a major Hollywood screenplay, a dream she had put aside long ago to devote her energies to her family. This time, Tanya knows she cannot refuse, even though she's torn about leaving her husband and their daughters. From the moment she steps into her lush bungalow at the fabled Bevery Hills Hotel, Tanya is thrust into an intoxicating new world where she feels reborn--engerized by the creativity swirling around her--yet the pull of her family at home is strong.

Suddenly she's working alongside A-list actors and a Hollywood legend: Oscar-winning producer Douglas Wayne, a man who always gets what he wants--and who seems to have his sights set on her. Flying home between shoots, struggling to reconnects with a family that seems to need her less and less, Tanya watches helplessly as her old life is pulled out from under her in the most crushing of ways.

As her two lives collide, as one award-winning fild leads to another, Tayna begins to wonder if she can be a wife, a mother, and a writer at the same time. And just as she confronts the toughest choice she has faced, she is offered another dazzling opportunity--one that could recast her story in an amazing new direction, complete with and ending she never could have written herself.

In Bungalow 2, Danielle Steel takes us into a world few ever see--a world of fame and fortune, celebrity and genius--daring to show us the real lives, real dreams, and real struggles hidden beneath the flash and glitter of Hollywood.

Teresa K. (oct1970) wrote on 7/4/2009...


ok

Silvia B. (barras31063) wrote on 12/17/2008...


Great read. Couldn't put the book down.

Doreen H. (KsGirl) wrote on 3/21/2008...


Great Book!
Easy read.


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