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Family ties : a novel / Danielle Steel.
Summary:
Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she had the world in the palm of her hand, until a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sister's three orphaned children, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold.
Record details
- ISBN: 0739377426
- ISBN: 9780739377420 (large print : softcover)
- Physical Description: 402 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
- Edition: Large print ed.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, c2010.
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| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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- 7 of 7 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Valemount Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Valemount Public Library | f ste lp (Text) | 35194014141717 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2010 April #1
At 26, Annie Ferguson is living the American dream. She recently graduated from architecture school and landed a great job, and has a terrific boyfriend who just may be the one. But her dreams disappear in an instant when her sister and husband die in an airplane crash and Annie becomes the guardian for her young nieces and nephew. She devotes the next 16 years to raising the children, and when they leave the nest, she misses them. Now Annie must learn to let them lead their own lives as Whitney, her friend from college, keeps reminding her. Although her nieces and nephew are technically adults, it's hard to sit back and let them solve their own problems, especially when they have serious consequences. And it's time to think about her own life, since in the midst of all the family drama, Annie finally meets a man. But can she let him into her life, and is he willing to accept her and her family? All the trademark elements of Steel's novels are here: pretty people with thorny problems, making her latest another sure hit with her loyal fans. Copyright 2010 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2010 April #1
An aunt steps up to mother her orphaned nieces and nephew, in Steel's predictable latest (A Good Woman, 2008, etc.).Annie, 26, is on the verge of embarking on an exciting career, and marrying well, when her sister Jane and her husband are killed in a plane crash. With some trepidation, Annie becomes guardian of Jane's three young children, Liz, Ted and Katie. Annie's fiancé, not up to the challenge of a ready-made family, bows out. Cut to 16 years later. Annie has never marriedâshe hasn't had time, thanks to her thriving architecture firm, which caters to New York City's wealthiest, and the challenges of raising her nieces and nephew. Her efforts have borne fruit: Ted is now in law school, Katie attends Pratt and Liz is a globetrotting jewelry editor for Vogue. After Ted's Contracts professor, Pattie, a divorcee 12 years his senior, seduces him, he's sexually in her thrall but knows it's not love. An ankle sprained at a job site sends Annie to the ER, where (during the interminable wait) she meets high-profile TV-news anchor Tom. After years of bland blind dates, Tom is a refreshing change. The plot duly thickens: Katie drops out of design school to work in a tattoo parlor, and she's besotted with her new boyfriend Paul, an Iranian/American dual national. Liz's scruffy French lover Jean-Louis seems to be too friendly with his ex-mistress Françoise, who's the mother of his child. Pattie stabs Ted's hand with a steak knife when he tries to leave. Paul and Katie take an ill-advised trip to Tehran, and his relatives confiscate their U.S. passports. Just when Tom and Annie are realizing (after an idyllic stay at a private villa in Turks and Caicos) there is room for each other in their fast-paced lives, it appears that her charges may now need her more than ever.A listless narrative not helped by Steel's plodding prose, but her legion of fans aren't in it for the surprise. Copyright Kirkus 2010 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2010 March #1
A young woman suddenly finds herself responsible for her sister's three small children. It's a formula, but Steel fans will love it. Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information. - LJ Express Reviews : LJ Express Reviews
Young architect Annie Ferguson's life is turned upside down when her sister and brother-in-law die in a plane crash. Aunt Annie suddenly becomes the guardian of her sister's three young children and, at the expense of her love life, spends the next several years raising them and establishing herself as an architect. Once the kids (a fashion magazine editor, a law student, and an art student) are of adult age, Annie struggles to let them make their own decisions and mistakes. She also tries to let romance back into her life by way of a handsome TV news anchor. Verdict After Steel sums up 16 years in less than 20 pages, she slows down and allows the reader to become somewhat invested in the characters' lives. Although it's predictable at times (OK, most of the time), this modern-day novel is not an unpleasant way to spend a few hours, thanks to the various characters and story lines. When it comes to Danielle Steel books, public libraries know what to do (i.e., buy multiple copies. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 3/1/10.]-Samantha J. Gust, Niagara Univ. Lib., NY Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2010 May #3
A bland, forgettable tale full of platitudes and clunky exposition, Steel's latest bestseller-to-be follows Annie Ferguson, who inherits her sister's three children when she dies in a plane crash. Annie does her best to raise them and manages to build a career for herself as a promising architect, even if it means putting much of the rest of her life on hold. Once the children are grown, Annie realizes that there are a slew of other problems facing them--abusive relationships, culture clashes, and the painful process of finding one's way in life--and as Annie gently leads her inherited brood through the gauntlet of growing up, she finds her own happiness. The treacle factor is front and foremost as Steel demonstrates, again, why she's not known as a prose stylist, although there's a glimmer of a good plot. (July)
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