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The House On Hope Street
Author Danielle Steel Danielle Fernande Dominique Schuelein-Steel was born in New York City on August 14, 1947. During the summer of 1971, she wrote her first novel, Going Home. The book was published in October 1973, when Danielle was 26, and is her only non-best seller. Now she is a very famous American writer. There are more than 350 million copies of her books in print, and every book is a number one bestseller. In 1989, she was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for having at least one of her books on the Times' bestseller list for 381 consecutive weeks. But Guinness was premature. One or more of Danielle's novels have been on The New York Times bestseller list for over 390 consecutive weeks. She is read by women and men, young and old, in 47 countries and 28 languages. In short, Danielle Steel is the most popular author writing today. The House On Hope Street The book “The house on hope street” by Danielle Steel is fiction, a novel about a woman life and her destiny. It is set in USA, North-San Francisco. The main character of the book is Liz Sutherland. She is a enterprising and active woman. She was in a happy marriage with Jack for 18 years and they have 5 wonderful children. Jack and Liz worked together in their own lawyers company and were very successful in their work. They had a comfortable and wealthy home in San Francisco suburb on Hope Street. But then it all falled to dust with one moment. On the morning of the first day of Christmas the whole family was happy. Later Jack had to go to the office just for five minutes and it became fatal to him. A man, against who they were fighting in the court, revenges and murders him. Now Liz is alone and has to face a horrible loss. At first she thinks that she can’t live without his husband, partner and best friend- Jack. In the same time she has to think about her kids, who have also lost their father. One of the children is defected and it makes everything even harder for her. But children help Liz out of the depression and help her to come back to her life. She gets power from the love of children to go back to work. She tries to be as good mum as she can to her children and be for a father to them too. But just when Liz life is getting back to normal his oldest son gets to the hospital with a hard trauma. Thanks to that Bill Webster comes into her life. The recovering of Liz son takes time and as time goes Liz and Bill become best friends. Liz has to face a horrible thing in her life, the death of a man she loves more than anything else. Luckily she can face the fact and come out of it with the help of her children and her new best friend Bill.
The language used in the book is sometimes ornated with various adjectives. It makes the book more interesting to read and gives me a better imagination of the characters, places and events. The book is never boring and makes me always want to read on to see what happens next. The main message of the book is that it is possible to get over a horrible thing that has happened in one’s life and go on. The life has more things to offer and new events to come, new people to meet with. When somebody dies the fact has to be faced. I liked the book because it was a bit psychological and showed me what people think, what kind of consequences does death of a close person can do. I liked the emotions showed and described. For example the mothers love of her children, thankfulness for people help, the need to have a good friend. The book was gripping and made me want to read it and see what happens next. I also liked the other book I’ve read by D. Steel so I hoped that this one is as good as the other and it didn’t disappoint me.
Used materials: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~amots/biography.htm Danielle Steel, The House On Hope Street, “Ersen” 2000, 223 |