A truly soul searching tale of love and loss. A wonderfully spun story of glamour and art and the romance and love that surrounds it.
This story was about a woman with grown children finding love after the death of her husband. It was a nice story, very much in the same style of other Danielle Steel books. It was a little repetitive but overall sweet.
When a high-powered gallery owner collides with an offbeat artist, it's the perfect recipe for disaster. Sasha is widowed and knows she was lucky to have been married to a wonderful man. Liam's impulsive behavior has helped tear his marriage apart. While Sasha has been building her Parisian art gallery into an intercontinental success, Lian has been growing into one of the most striking young painters of his time. Utterly unalike - and with a nine-year age difference between them - the two are brought crashing together by the miracle of art. But can they juggle a secret, somewhat scandalous relationship?
For Sasha, it's a matter of keeping Liam hidden from her grown children and well-heeled clientele as she commutes between New York and Paris. For Liam, it's about creating chaos out of order and bringing out the wild streak Sasha barely knows she has. That is, until tradegy alters Liam's life - and forces a sacrifice that they couldn't have expected. But from the snow falling on the Tuileries to the joy of eating ice cream by candlelight, the artist and the art dealer have tasted perfection. And giving up now might just be most impossible thing of all.
This shows that nothing is impossible.
Sasha de Suvery Boardman, the 48-year-old heroine of Steel's latest romance, knew she had it all - perfect marriage, two terrific grown kids, prestigious art galleries in Paris and New York, three luxury homes - until her husband's fatal heart attack. Now brokenhearted, but still beautiful and chic, she buries herself in her gallery work, until son Xavier introduces her to bad-boy painter Liam Allison, a gorgeous, "wacky" 39-year-old who instantly "[brings] out the mother in her." So she offers him a gallery contract, thus igniting a "torrid affair" punctuated by endless arguments about their nine-year age difference, his severe allergy to all forms of authority and their incompatible "lifestyles and appearances" (including his strong aversion to wearing socks). Despite Steel's repeated assurances that Liam is actually "innocent and likable," his petulance and impulsiveness are seriously off-putting, and the tortured romance has an icky, near-incestuous quality that may make some readers cringe. Others may just be bored by the sketchy, meandering plot, the skimpy characterizations and the hyperbolic, often stunningly repetitious style ("He was just a young man who liked to have fun and still acted like a boy at times, full of mischief and fun")
A sweet, sad story of love lost & found again.
A fun, romance! I don't read much Danielle Steel but enjoyed this book immensely. A comment on how breaking out of the invisible bonds of our lives can enrich us.

Penny H. (
kara) wrote on 3/24/2007...
another great book of danielle steels

Kimberlee P. (
KimsClub) wrote on 3/18/2007...
Life is an art form. Two hopelessly mismatched people - is it possible that this is love? Impossible - or not?
Sasha has been building her Parisian art gallery and Liam has been growing into a wonderful young painter. There is a 9-year age difference between them, but they keep meeting because of their interests in art. Sasha needs to keep Liam hidden from her young children and Liam wants to bring out Sasha's wild side. But, tragedy hits Liam's life and tests their relationship. This is about taking chances and counting blessings.