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Friends Forever

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Five children meet on the first day of kindergarten. In the years that follow, they become friends and more than friends. Together, they will find strength, meet challenges, face life’s adventures, endure loss, face stark realities, and open their hearts. In this moving novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel traces their unforgettable journey—full of te...more

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Published July 24th 2012 by Delacorte Press (first published January 1st 2012)

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Sep 21, 2012 Jackie rated it 1 of 5 stars

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I am usually a big fan of Danille Steel but one book would best describe this book and that word owuld be: Trainwreck!

The story centers around the lives of Izzy, Gabby, Andy, Billy and Sean who meet on the first day of Kindergarten and form a strong friendship. Their family members are also heavily involved in the storyline which makes it very confusing to keep track of who is who in the book. Also one of the main characters (Andy) has a very weak introduction and very weak s...more

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Dec 21, 2012 Ronya Misleh rated it 3 of 5 stars

After all the "heavy" reading I've been doing, this one was really light. Maybe too light. But, sometimes, that's just what you need: an easy to read, hard to believe, fast paced novel. Now, back to literary fiction.

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Jan 04, 2013 Kyra Frye rated it 4 of 5 stars

Amazing! It’s all I can say about how good this book is. I am speechless! Danielle Steel has done a remarkable job on the book Friends Forever. Five kindergarteners Andy, Izzie, Gabby, Sean and Billy meet each other for the first time at Atwood and have been friends ever since. They are now in college and go through many devastating challenges but stick together as a family. Enjoy this heartwarming story of five friends who go through life with struggles but they truly stay friends forever in th...more

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Dec 16, 2012 Julie rated it 2 of 5 stars

This book is about a group of friends who become friends in kindergarten and stay close as they grow up. Their mothers are friends, and they all form a kind of family. The premise I read said that they had difficulties growing up and dealing with the real world. I thought there would be drama, romantic angst, and maybe a little tragedy. That's what it sounded like.

I'll start with the good: I couldn't put it down. I liked the characters for the most part, and they seemed like real people, despit...more This book is about a group of friends who become friends in kindergarten and stay close as they grow up. Their mothers are friends, and they all form a kind of family. The premise I read said that they had difficulties growing up and dealing with the real world. I thought there would be drama, romantic angst, and maybe a little tragedy. That's what it sounded like.

I'll start with the good: I couldn't put it down. I liked the characters for the most part, and they seemed like real people, despite the way Steel told the story rather than showed it to us. I also liked Steel's narrative writing. I admit that it's often better to show than tell, and most of the time, I appreciate this, but I felt like I was reading an account of something. It was new and interesting. I am also not sure how she makes this work, since I think it breaks all kinds of writing rules. But this is also my second Danielle Steel novel, so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about.

Now for the bad: (If you don't want to read this because you plan on reading this book, feel free to skip. I don't know how to do the HTML to set the spoiler alert.)

This is not a realistic book. I feel like she use the tragedies that occur so that two of the friends could get together. I kept thinking why. How does this work? Why? Why would you kill four characters in an 8 and a half hour book? And then the two left get together? Whaaaaaat? In the end, there was romance, but I don't find tragedy followed by sudden passion romantic in that way. I am seeing question marks.

My "favorite" was the device she used right before Gabbi was killed. I would quote it, but I only read the book in audio. Steel begins describing in great detail what Gabbie is doing and what she is wearing as she steps outside to get a cab, which was not really her style throughout this book. I knew something bad was going to happen because of that.

After reading this book(and remembering the other one I read by Danielle Steel) I am convinced that her writing insults my inteligence. It works for some people, I suppose, but I don't generally like the tell verses show method. It was a good thing, but in this book there was too much of a good thing. The third person omniscient point-of-view was also too scattered in my opinion. There were characters we only heard from once or twice. They helped us understand the story, but I felt it unnecessary. Why do we need to hear from more than the main five? Speaking of hearing from the main five, we never hear anything about Andy(one of the group) until close to the end of his life. In fact, we never hear from his point-of-view until the night he dies. To what purpose?

I don't know if I would recommend this book, unless you want to be sad and feel pointless. If you read it, don't get attached to te characters. (less)

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Dec 14, 2012 Laura Beth rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: did-not-like-would-not-recommend

I came home from work today looking forward to getting immersed in this novel, Friends Forever, by Danielle Steel. I've been a Steel fan for years and while some of her books are sad, there is typically a positive, happy payoff. So after hearing about the senseless CT school shooting almost all day, I thought this would be a good escape. I really don't think I could have possibly picked a worse book to do this. This was an extremely depressing book with almost no let up on bad events. As a matte...more

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Dec 04, 2012 Jinky rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2012

This is definitely not a Christmas read! Not that it was advertised to be one but just letting you know that it was not a jolly book. Quite depressing actually. It practically didn't let up. I was hanging on to the hope that there will be a happy ending. Well, let's just say that I was so dispirited that it would have taken an amazingly, over-top ending to snap me out of my displeased trance.

The premise was sweet enough, from kindergarten to adulthood these five individuals demonstrated the imp...more

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Dec 02, 2012 Tracy rated it 1 of 5 stars

This is my third or fourth Danielle Steel. I have girlfriends who adore her and so I decided to give her a try since I being an Evanovich follower can admit to loving popular fiction.
She is a good story teller and I can tell why many people like her. She is however, very predictable, with no surprises. However, she has a aggravating habit of being very repetitive. She restates the situation over and over. I found myself yelling at my CD player. " I know, I know! He is dead and that means he i...more

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Oct 21, 2012 Lori Anaple rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: beach-reads, chic-lit, 2012

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I am not ashamed to admit that I read Danielle Steel. She was a staple in my adolescent book pile. I haven't read anything from her in a long while and picked this up at the library. To say that I was underwhelmed is an understatement. Usually I can count on Steele to have me sobbing at some point. I can count on her to weave a story full of well rounded characters and make me care. Not this time.

Perhaps it was too many characters. I don't know. But none of these characters felt like people to...more

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Sep 08, 2012 Elle Lothlorien rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: people who don't mind sad books, people who are grieving and would like company

Recommended to Elle by: no one, found it at library

Okay, I admit it. I'm a sucker for sunsets, romance, and what passes for happy endings in modern day. That's why blockbuster writer Danielle Steele's latest novel, ''Friends Forever' took me by surprise.

'Friends Forever' follows a group of five children who meet the first day of kindergarten at their exclusive San Francisco private school, and vow to become friends for life.

Trouble is, few of their lives get to last particularly long. In fact, these kids fall so far below the expected life spa...more Okay, I admit it. I'm a sucker for sunsets, romance, and what passes for happy endings in modern day. That's why blockbuster writer Danielle Steele's latest novel, ''Friends Forever' took me by surprise.

'Friends Forever' follows a group of five children who meet the first day of kindergarten at their exclusive San Francisco private school, and vow to become friends for life.

Trouble is, few of their lives get to last particularly long. In fact, these kids fall so far below the expected life span, by halfway through the book I was wondering if this was really a take-off on mystery writer Agatha Christie's 'And Then There Were None.' Or a new form of 'Hunger Games' where the pressures of society are the 'arena' in which our offspring fight to stay alive.

Danielle Steele is an accomplished writer, and we feel the anguish of the families as they struggle with the loss of their children. This is not a finger-pointing book, citing rich parents and indulgent lifestyles as the culprit. Instead, the inability to cope with loss, and how failure to cope leads to yet more loss, is the prevailing theme of the book.

Being the master craftsperson she is, Steele gives each child a unique personality and set of ambitions from the get go. All are sympathetic, as are the parents, and we want to see them grow up and have happy lives (or, in this case, at least grow up.) But only two make it to adulthood, both with crippling issues. Even though the two that remain manage to resolve the issues that keep them from both happiness and one another, it's hard to feel that they will be successful; their happiness is overshadowed by so much heartbreak.

The thread that truly intrigued me (once I stopped sniffling at all the funeral scenes) was the growing relationship between Izzie, the last remaining girl, and her estranged mother. While the mother was unable to connect with her daughter while she was growing up, the example she sets, and the intuitive way in which she reaches out to her child in adulthood, reminded me of what I'm looking for whenever I open one of Steele's books--the tremendous resiliency we all have within, if we choose to tap it.

But, with all respect, I hope Steele 'lightens up' in her next novel.
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Aug 07, 2012 Nada rated it 3 of 5 stars

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I feel like I should begin with a disclaimer. I read Danielle Steel books. I went through a phase of my life when I read through pretty much everything she had written. Then, for a while, I felt that the reality of life went so far beyond these books that they seemed contrived and unreal. Yet, I continued to read them. Recently, I have not particularly liked the books. Yet, when one comes out, I read it. That being said,...more

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Aug 05, 2012 Pooja Jeevagan rated it 3 of 5 stars

A typical Danielle Steel...she writes, because she wants to writes...not with an agenda, not really with a story...but she weaves such a perfect web of words that you always get caught at some point or other in her novel...this one is again a book, with no real plot...except a long, really long friendship...what better day to begin and end reading it than on a Friendship day...

The book, as the name suggest, lies in the theme of friends forever...and though the friendship of over a decade makes m...more

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Jul 26, 2012 Shelly Itkin rated it 4 of 5 stars

Admission letters from the Atwood School are like getting into Harvard or Yale with the exception that this school goes from kindergarten to twelfth grade. It carries enormous social status and most children who graduate from this school are accepted into the finest colleges including many Ivy League ones.

The first day of school for five children is what this book is about. It focus's on Billy who has his football in hand, next to arrive is Sean holding his toy gun (which was not supposed to hav...more

Admission letters from the Atwood School are like getting into Harvard or Yale with the exception that this school goes from kindergarten to twelfth grade. It carries enormous social status and most children who graduate from this school are accepted into the finest colleges including many Ivy League ones.

The first day of school for five children is what this book is about. It focus's on Billy who has his football in hand, next to arrive is Sean holding his toy gun (which was not supposed to have gotten into the classroom) and they decided to sit down and play with the blocks.

Shortly, after that a beautifully little girl who looked like a princess walked in and said her name was Gabrille but that everyone called her Gabby. Then another little girl arrived wearing braids and her nametag read Izzie. She walked right into the kitchen and asked the two boys what they wanted to eat. Several moments later a boy came in and asked "am I too late for lunch?" and his nametag said Andy. So Izzie started preparing the lunches for all five of them and then when activities started they stayed together.

As the story progresses there friendships and problems and life is shared with all five of them. Some have problems at home as we learn that one of the children's older brothers got in trouble another two of the five parents are going to get divorced. One will remarry and the adventure's follow them thru graduation and then keep going.

They make a pact at graduation that where ever life takes them they will always remain Friends Forever.

We are taken thru some very heartwarming and touching moments in their lives some which are very happy and also sad ones. It lets us stop and realize just how precious each day can be and how things are not always what they look like.

Ms. Steel has written an excellent book that is something that could happen to any of our children today and it is a very touching story.

I have read all of her books and find this is one of the most touching and heartwarming books that she has written as we all can put ourselves into these places and possibly these situations. It's a quick read as most of her books are but this is one you wont be able to put down, as these characters are definitely real people. (less)

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Nov 15, 2012 Rebecca rated it 2 of 5 stars

This was a typical Danielle Steel and a quick read, however, the content was anything but light. The premise was fun with 5 friends who remained close all the way from Kindergarten through high school and into college. SPOILER ALERT ... but then, the story took a turn for the worse and characters started dying right and left. Obviously, tragic accidents happen in life but it seems unreal to me that by the end of the story, 3 out of the 5 friends were dead as well as a sibling. What a depressing...more

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Jul 31, 2012 Sue Seligman rated it 3 of 5 stars

I have not read any Danielle Steel books in many years; the last one I read was Big Girl a few years ago. I was excited about the plot summary of this book....5 friends meet in kindergarten, and become best friends throughout their school years and beyond. Their parents also become part of their intimate community, and the years between childhood and adulthood are marked by life experiences of our 21st century society. The characters are faced with joys and sorrows, challenges and triumphs, love...more

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Oct 02, 2012 Kelly rated it 4 of 5 stars

I've always been a sucker for Danielle Steel books and I have yet to read one that I don't end up loving by the end.

When I first started reading this book I didn't expect it to take the turn that it did and to be honest about half way through I was praying that it had a good ending and wasn't all filled with sadness. I'm all for a book having bad things happen to people because the reality of life is that bad things can happen to anyone. None of us are immune to the harsh reality of death, whet...more

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Feb 22, 2013 Stephanie rated it 2 of 5 stars

I used to read just about everything Danielle Steel wrote until about 15 years ago when I felt like every story she wrote was the same and very poorly edited to boot. Friends Forever is not a typical Daniele Steel novel so I decided to give her a try again. I enjoyed the beginning of the book, I love the premise how five friends meet in kindergarten and become life long friends. But yet again this story was poorly poorly written. I felt as if I was reading the first draft (full disclosure I did...more

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Sep 16, 2012 Kathy rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was initially quite interested in this book – and loved the idea of 5 friends meeting in kindergarten and staying best friends throughout their school years and beyond. In the first few chapters I did get a bit lost and had to re-read paragraphs because we are not only introduced to the five children, but their parents as well, so it felt like we had names being thrown around everywhere, so took me a bit to get who was who and in what order!

So I got into the flow of the story and was intereste...more

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Aug 29, 2012 Lynn rated it 3 of 5 stars

Well, on the positive side, Danielle has alleviated a lot of the constant repetition that marked her style in recent books (an obvious way to fill pages), and this book read a lot better as a result. I was engaged right from the beginning to the end.

The thing is, this book is just very sad and morbid. I should have suspected that it would be going in, as she dedicated it to her deceased son, Nick. The book follows the lives and families of five young people who form a friendship in kindergarten...more Well, on the positive side, Danielle has alleviated a lot of the constant repetition that marked her style in recent books (an obvious way to fill pages), and this book read a lot better as a result. I was engaged right from the beginning to the end.

The thing is, this book is just very sad and morbid. I should have suspected that it would be going in, as she dedicated it to her deceased son, Nick. The book follows the lives and families of five young people who form a friendship in kindergarten that lasts 19 years (and presumably more, in a couple of cases, but this is where the book ends). Knowing how rare it is to sustain a friendship between just two people from the age of five to their twenties, I found it a little far-fetched that five different kids would retain a group "best-friendship" through decades. After all, as we grow up, our interests change and we evolve, and it is only natural that we grow apart, especially a mixture of girls and boys, who typically go through an estrangement stage (which is a nice way of saying that they deplore the opposite sex) for awhile in their elementary school years.

In addition, there are a series of tragedies that befall these kids and their families that also detract from the realism. In other words, Danielle went overboard. While any of these tragedies are possible in this day and age, that all of them should happen within this small group of people was pretty unbelievable. I can't be more specific than that without giving away the story line (such as it is - just five kids growing up).

Perhaps it was cathartic to her to write this book. She lost her son, Nick, when he was still in his teens from bi-polarism, which he medicated with illegal drugs and eventually, with suicide. Because of this, her descriptions of the parents' reactions to the tragedies and the pain and grief ring very true. She has lived this. From an entertainment standpoint, though, it was pretty a pretty morbid book - unnecessarily so. While the book ends on a happy note, by that point, it is like feeding a morsel of food to a starving person. In other words, it is not as effectual or happy as it should be.

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Nov 04, 2012 Jennifer rated it 4 of 5 stars

Every now and then, I pick up Danielle Steele for a really light read, not expecting much deep emotion, but a decent story and a contrast to the type of books I usually read. I have two complaints about her books: they are usually filled with way too many fashion details, and too many sentences that shamelessly begin with "And". I mean, LOTS of sentences. However, this story was a departure from her usual treatment of characters. I thought she was writing about family life and situations that sh...more

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May 09, 2013 Michelle rated it 3 of 5 stars

Ok, in the end I did like this book. I wish, however, I knew more what it was about, because some of the death triggered me. Very hard to listen to at times. But overall a good tragic story. I was sad at the end that it was over, but maybe she will write another book that expands on the remaining characters. The ending leaves a lot of characters unresolved, like whatever happened to Brian and Michelle?

There was some repeating, but not quite as much as in Happy Birthday. The beginning I felt more...more

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Feb 28, 2013 Daniela Hernandez rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book is about the hardships a very strong friendship faces throughout the years. From leaving to go to college, to substance abuse, to divorce, this friendship is put to the test. Five strong people are become instant best friends on their first day of kindergarten, but will things always be fun and games. Their friendship is put to the test throughout this amazing, breath taking book. I really enjoyed reading this book because it always keeps you guessing. At every page theirs a different...more

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Jul 29, 2012 Shauna rated it 4 of 5 stars

I've read every book Danielle Steel has written, thanks to my Aunt Diane who loaned me Zoya when I was bored and visiting in upstate New York when I was in Middle School. I enjoy them. They're quick, easy reads. You don't have to think. The plots are pretty formulaic (which they'd have to be for her to crank the novels as quickly as she does), but she's made a ton of money and written a LOT of books for a reason. People keep reading them.

This latest one is my favorite of the last few for sure....more

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Aug 07, 2012 Amanda Cowan rated it 1 of 5 stars

I knew when I saw this book that it ran the risk of being too generic and broad but I was intrigued by the idea of it. So I read. My main issue is that, while it's an interesting idea, there is just too much going on here. I never felt particularly attached to any character. By the end, I knew better than to get attached to any one character.

I felt pretty bored with the ones she did give us a peak at.

There are a few authors that at one point I enjoyed, but who now seem to be simply following s...more

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Aug 18, 2012 Jeanne rated it 2 of 5 stars

Oh to be a character in a Danielle Steel novel. Well this is not the novel I'd want to wake up in. The story centers around five BFFS from their first days of kindergarten all through High School. Along the way their parents become friends as well. On graduation night they all make a pact to always be there for each other. Shortly after graduation however, each family endures a family tragedy that no family should have to endure. Each family member and members of the Big Five cope differently wh...more

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Mar 28, 2013 Kavya Burugupalli rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Sep 28, 2012 Debbie Levine rated it 4 of 5 stars

Billy, Gabby,Izzie, Sean and Andy began Kindergarden together at the prestigious Atwood Schhol, a private school in San Francisco. The five of the became close friends on day one and their friendship continued through their graduation as 12th graders. To their classmates, they were known as the big five: Billy the athlete, Gabby the actress, Sean who was destined for law enforcement, Andy the brain and Izzy the nurturer, best friend to all, the glue that united all of them.

Through adolescence, d...more

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Nov 07, 2012 Paul Lee rated it 4 of 5 stars

the story was scarier than the look on the front cover. It started bright how 5 kids meet in a kindergarten at Atwoods k-12 prestigious school. Gabby, Izzy, Sean, Billy, and Andy are friends for life. They all had goals in life billy wants to play in the NFL, Sean want to work as a police officer growing up, andy doctor like his parents, gabby in fashion, and Izzy is unsure. They all go to college of their dreams.

I say this book has scary twists because gabby dies from a drunk driver around the...more

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Jan 17, 2013 Ashley rated it 3 of 5 stars

I liked and hated this book at the same time. Steele hits you over and over with tragedy. I gave the book three stars but its more like a 3.5. The book is about five families who have five children the same age that meet on their first day of kindergarten; Billy, Sean, Izzie, Gabby, and Andy. The story unfolds these five families relationships with each other and the world. There is a lot that goes on in the twenty years this book goes over, sadness, loss, happiness, independence, grief, marriag...more

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Nov 11, 2012 Debbie rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: didn-t-like

I've read a lot of Danielle Steel's books, and while none of her recent ones (in my opinion) are as good as some of her earlier books, this one was just plain lousy. Ms. Steel is certainly a prolific writer, but not a very good writer. This book has too many characters - none of whom are well-developed, none of whom are particularly interesting, and most of whom are one-dimensional and stereotypical. The story is of 5 friends, who meet in kindergarten at an exclusive private school in San Franci...more

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Sep 29, 2012 Heather Hancock rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I have read a lot of Danielle Steel's books over the years, and some are much better than others. The premise of this book is 5 friends meet in kindergarden and their lives become intertwined from that point onwards. The story follows them through all their growing up years and beyond. Danielle does a good job on developing the characters and the relationships and both are quite believable. Where this book stumbles and where the story dips into unreality, in my opinion, is in the number of trage...more

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About Danielle Steel

Since 1981, Ms. Steel has been a permanent fixture on the New York Times hardcover and paperback bestseller lists. 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. The fact is that one or more of Ms. Steel's novels have been on the New York Times bestseller list for...more Since 1981, Ms. Steel has been a permanent fixture on the New York Times hardcover and paperback bestseller lists. 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. The fact is that one or more of Ms. Steel's novels have been on the New York Times bestseller list for over 390 consecutive weeks.

Twenty-one of Ms. Steel's novels have been adapted for television, each earning high ratings and critical acclaim, including two Golden Globe nominations for JEWELS, a four-hour mini-series that starred Anthony Andrews.

In addition, Ms. Steel is the author of the "Max and Martha" series of books for young readers. They are ten illustrated storybooks written to comfort the young as they face problems, such as a new stepfather, new baby, new school, loss of a grandparent, and other crucial dilemmas in a child's life. She has also written the "Freddie" books, four of them, about real-life situations in children's lives, like a visit to the doctor and the first night away from home. Ms. Steel has also written nonfiction, HIS BRIGHT LIGHT, about the life and death of her son Nicholas Traina, released by Delacorte Press in September 1998 and immediately jumped to the New York Times Non-Fiction bestseller list and "Having a Baby." She has also written a book of poetry entitled LOVE: POEMS BY DANIELLE STEEL.

In 2002, Ms. Steel was decorated by the French government as an "Officier" of the distinguished Order of Arts and Letters, for her lifetime contribution to world culture. She was awarded the second highest rank of the Order.

Ms. Steel also has a passionate interest in emerging contemporary artists. She has had an art gallery for several years, and and continues to sponsor and organize free lance art shows and events to show the work of emerging and mid-career artists. She has a degree in design herself. In addition to her writing, Ms. Steel has varied philanthropic interests. She founded and runs two foundations, one named in honor of her late son, The Nick Traina Foundation, which funds organizations involved in mental illness and child abuse. The second was established to assist the homeless. She has won numerous awards for her personal work with mentally ill adolescents and children. Ms. Steel maintains a passionate interest in the welfare and well-being of children, particularly those in jeopardy. She has raised nine children of her own. And they continue to keep her busy, as she juggles writing and family. Her family is her first priority, despite her many interests.

From an education in New York and Europe to a professional background in public relations and advertising, and teaching, Ms. Steel moved on quickly to her literary career and has been hard at work writing ever since. She wrote her first book at nineteen. Often, she works on five books at a time — researching one storyline, writing another, and editing the third. Still, she often spends two to three years researching and developing a single project. In the heat of a first draft, it is not uncommon for her to spend eighteen to twenty hours a day glued to her 1946 Olympia manual typewriter.

Family, children, and young people are the central focus of her life, and her passion, which frequently shows in her writing. She deals with the themes that touch on the most pressing issues of real life, which makes her books universal, and touch so many people. She is fascinated by the pressing life situations that affect us all, how people handle them and are often transformed as a result. And her novels have explored subjects such as kidnapping, incest, mental illness, suicide, death, divorce, adoption, marriage, loss, cancer, war, among others. She also frequently writes about historical themes, shedding new light on familiar historical events with meticulously accurate research.

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