Preview of The Novels of Danielle Steel Summary:

Most of Steel's books follow a young woman's journey from youth to maturity, from ignorance in the art of loving, through a series of relationships with men, to self knowledge and a mature, balanced relationship.

The central concern of her novels is the search for a lasting love relationship. While the characters are uniformly wealthy, beautiful and involved in exciting occupations, events or experiences, beneath the surface level of plot and character description are the real key to Steel's phenomenal popularity. She uses all of the traditions of the formula, but they are secondary to the real focus, which are the uncertainties, conflicts, choices and mistakes that anyone could and most people do experience. Readers are treated to extraordinary, exciting and exotic events which provide escape from the daily grind of ordinary existence, and also ordinary, familiar and recognizable problems, which are not easily solved but which fail...