Kaleidoscope: A Novel
Feb 2009 · Dell
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When a beautiful young Frenchwoman and a brilliant American actor meet in wartime Paris, their love begins like a fairy tale but ends in tragedy. Suddenly orphaned, their three children are cruelly separated. Megan, the baby, adopted by a family of comfortable means, becomes a doctor in the rural Appalachia. Alexandra, raised in lavish wealth, marries a powerful man whose pride is in his pedigree and who assumes that Alexandra is her parents' natural offspring. Neither of them has the remotest suspicion that she is adopted, or what turbulent tragedy lurks in her past. And Hilary, oldest of the Walker children, remembers them all, and the grief that tore them apart and cast them into separate lives. Feeling the loss throughout her life, and unable to find her sisters, she builds an extraordinary career and has no personal life.
When John Chapman, lawyer and prestigious private investigator, is asked to find these three women, he wonders why. Their parents' only friend, he did nothing to keep them together as children and has been haunted by remorse all his life. The investigator follows a trail that leads from chic New York to Boston slums, from elegant Parisian salons to the Appalachian hills, to the place where the three sisters face each other and one more final, devastating truth before they can move on.
When John Chapman, lawyer and prestigious private investigator, is asked to find these three women, he wonders why. Their parents' only friend, he did nothing to keep them together as children and has been haunted by remorse all his life. The investigator follows a trail that leads from chic New York to Boston slums, from elegant Parisian salons to the Appalachian hills, to the place where the three sisters face each other and one more final, devastating truth before they can move on.
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4.7
60 reviews
Carolyn Holdren
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August 25, 2014
The story is okay, not one of my favorite DS books. It's a little far fetched for me. The BIG flaw is the grammatical and spelling errors! It's pretty clear that either it was never proof read OR the proof reader did not know english. It was so bad in some instances that the sentences/paragraphs didn't even make sense. These mistakes weren't just a handful but on most every page! It really took away from the book story , I'm sorry to say. I'm certainly not perfect in my grammer or spelling but I'm not an author or proof reader. I give it 3 stars at best.
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January 23, 2012
the most fascinating book i have read till date. It was interesting and very well written , i could not keep the book down ,took ever chance i had to finish it , finished the book in 3 days :) the characters haunted me , but there was something special in every character , something special that one can relate to.
Donna Shannon
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September 11, 2015
My favorite danielle steel book. I have reread it many times. The different lives of the sisters, leads them down various paths but does not kill thier bond.
About the author
Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world’s most popular authors, with over 650 million copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include Country, Prodigal Son, Pegasus, A Perfect Life, Power Play, Winners, First Sight, Until the End of Time, The Sins of the Mother, and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina’s life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless; Pure Joy, about the dogs she and her family have loved; and the children’s book Pretty Minnie in Paris.
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