Special delivery

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Label

Special delivery

Statement of responsibility

Danielle Steel

Creator

• trueSteel, Danielle
• Steel, Danielle

Subject

• Beverly Hills (Calif.) -- Fiction
• trueBeverly Hills, California
• trueInterpersonal attraction
• trueLove stories
• Love stories
• trueMen/women relations
• trueMiddle-aged men
• trueMiddle-aged women
• Single men -- California -- Fiction
• trueWidows
• Widows -- California | Beverly Hills -- Fiction
• trueWomen's romantic fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• trueLove stories
• trueWomen's romantic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

In a novel that explores fun and challenge, and occasionalabsurdity, of new beginnings, Daniel Steel tells the story of two people who findlove where and when they least expect it. At fifty-nine, Jack Watson owns one of the most successfulboutiques in Beverly Hills, has two adult children who are the light of hislife, and his choice of Hollywood's most beautiful women. After a failedmarriage in the distant past, and a brief, tragic affair years afterward, Jackhas become the perfect bachelor. And he loves it. Amanda Robbins knew jack Watson only as her daughter'sfather-in-law, an incurable playboy whom she dislikes intensely. Theirs hadbeen a relationship based solely upon the marriage of her daughter to his son. And Amanda wants no other relationship withhim. But when she becomes a widow unexpectedly twenty-six years after sheretired from Hollywood stardom to become a wife and mother, Amanda findsherself on unfamiliar ground, and is surprised to find herself both befriendedby, and attracted to, Jack Watson. Worse yet, she likes him. There is a lot moreto him than she previously suspected. Amanda's shock at her attraction to Jack is equaled only byher children's. then, suddenly, a startling announcement stuns both offamilies, as Jack and Amanda are faced with an unexpected gift that neither thoughtp[possible, and a with a choice that provides both of them with a challenge. Butat a time in their lives when they least expect to feel that way, they not onlyfeel young again, but are blissfully happy, in spite of the confusion,opposition, and obstacles all around them. SpecialDelivery is about what two people do when life gives them everything theyever wanted, twenty years after they expected to find it. In her fortiethbestselling novel, Danielle Steel makes us laugh and cry as she touches theheart with tenderness and accuracy.

Tone

• trueRomantic
• trueMoving

Writing style

• trueEngaging

Assigning source

From Dust Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3569.T33828

LC item number

S67 1997

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult