The Ghost (Danielle Steel)
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (711 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 073931727X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 590 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kindle Customer said The people the ghosts had chosen. A great history of life, the hardships and the difficulties of living in a much more difficult time in our country. It also addresses the ways women were treated, sometimes as less than the way men were treated. The best was how we each deal with the disappointments and tragedies that come to us but by living through them, we find peace.. nan said Excellent book! Couldn't put it down. Excellent book! Couldn't put it down. Some books she repeats things over and over again about a character or situation, like we didn't get it the first time. Case in point, Prodigal Son. How many times does she have to say how much the parent thought of one son and how much the brothers hated each other? Anyway, this was an excellent book, right to the point.. A Rare Gem from Ms.Steel. This book is truly one of very best of all Ms. Steel's many, many books and one of my three favorites along with "Legacy" and "Once in a Lifetime." I always enjoy well-crafted books that can skillfully weave together the present with a previous century. The plot is simply riveting.
Architect Charles Waterston has a job he loves, a charming and beautiful wife, and an idyllic life in London. There he meets lovely, timid Francesca Vironnet, the historical society curator and librarian, who has fled France with her young daughter. While investigating in the attic one day, Charles discovers the diary of Sarah Ferguson, who left her abusive husband in England for a better life in the New World. When an unexpected snowstorm strands Charles in a small town, he takes refuge in a small bed-and-breakfast. --Maudeen Wachsmith. Complete with Steel's trademark poignancy but minus the glitz and glamour so evident in many of her novels, The Ghost is an outstanding read. Charles soon finds himself drawn to Sarah, and he even visits the local historical society in an attempt to learn more about her.
Sarah's first entry is dated 1789, the year she arrived in America. With nothing left to lose, Charlie takes a leave of absence from his job to drive through New England, hoping to make peace with himself. It is Christmas Eve when Charlie first glimpses her, a beautiful young woman with jet black hair. Intrigued and unafraid, Charlie immerses himself in the diaries, eager to learn more about the woman for whom the house was built. Nothing in his comfortable existence prepares him for the sudden end to his ten-year marriage—or his unwanted transfer to his firm's New York office. He thinks it is a neighbor playing a joke on him, until he finds her diaries hidden away in an old trunk. Settling in Massachusetts, Sarah finds an unfamiliar land seething with the turbulence of the Indian wars. Her name was Sarah Ferguson. There, as if by chance, Charlie meets an elderly widow who offers to rent him her most precious possession: a remote, exquisite lakeside chateau. Determined to start a new life in the vast new world, Sarah finds freedom—and danger—as she builds her home in the wilderness and meets a man who will transform her life. Without self-pity or sentiment, she writes of her harrowing journey from her native England, having fled the brutality of her aristocratic husband. Their fateful union is a testament to a love so powerful it reaches across the centuries. And for Charlie Waterston, caught between Sarah's world and his own, their s