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Book Review of Accident

Accident
Accident
Author: Danielle Steel
Genre: Romance
Book Type: Paperback
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from the cover:
Although frequent business meetings keep her husband, Brad, away from home, Page Clarke feels blessed with her happy family and comfortable marriage. They have a house near San Francisco and she keeps busy looking after her seven-year-old son, Andy and her teenage daughter, Allyson. Allyson, at fiftgeen, is trying her wings and one weekend instead of an evening with her friend, Chloe, the girls lie and go out with two older high school boys. But a Saturday night that was to be fun ends in tragedy when their car collides head-on with another. At the hospital Page finds Chloe's divorced father, Trygve, and unable to locagte Brad, she leans on his strength throughout the long hours of tormenting questions. Will Allyson live? Will any of them? Were the teenagers drinking? Using drugs? Who was at fault? And where is her husband? Without Brad by her side Page feels her life start to come apart as she is forced to confront the fact that Allyson may not live, and if she does, she may never be the same again. So many people are affected by this accident.

(how do they survive it with all the questions? How will Chloe's father fit into the picture? earl h., meldrim, ga.)