Antonia's relationship with Hamish felt a little weird because of the age gap, but I know it worked for the formula of the plot. Novel clearly gave us the picture of mental trauma all kids go through when the parents are shows their ego and insecurity in marriage life. The hula hoop was cheap to make and had become an enormous fad, and had already made the company a lot of money. With themes of neglect, estrangement, persistence, forgiveness, acceptance, tragedy and accomplishments, Invisible does cross some interesting areas.

Normally when a child prefers to be invisible so as not to be seen and heard and most of all loved they grow up and have problems with relationships since they can't trust that they are unworthy of love. I was wrong and found that many others have the same opinions on the writing and some even stating that the writing is "a classic Danielle Steel.I drifted away from Romance/Chick-Lit to psychological thrillers however, now forty novels later there is a loyalty magnet that has a hold on me as I still have soft spot for Ms. He had a girl waiting for him at home, and intended to marry her, although he never told Fabienne’s mother that. Invisible covers the story of Antonia and follows her from her neglected childhood to her career in film.

Want to thank NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine ~ Delacorte Press for this eGalley. Antonia manages to become the person she wants to be in spite of her upbringing and rises above her pain to eventually love again. For him, she was a brief wartime experience, an exotic memory he would carry with him, but knew he would never see her again. Although Danielle Steel's writing is horrific by my criticism, I wouldn't doubt that the plot would have been grand as most others have been talking about and I just wish I could see that for myself.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Having no other relatives, she was sent to an orphanage in Quimper, where she stayed until she was eighteen. Her father had been killed in an explosion in the early days of the Resistance, and she was making ends meet doing any work she could get, cleaning floors in restaurants, waiting on tables, and as a maid at a small hotel. When she saw other children, she wondered if their parents fought like that too, but she would never have dared to ask. Her father has become remote with Antonia and she feels as if he can't wait for her to go off to College. She is beautiful and meets young men in College that are studying to become actors and she is urged to become an actress which she has no interest.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; Expect a Miracle, a book of her favorite quotations for inspiration and comfort; Pure Joy, about the dogs she and her family have loved; and the children’s books Pretty Minnie in Paris and Pretty Minnie in Hollywood. We follow Antonia as she goes through life being ignored by her parents making her reliant on herself. Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world’s bestselling authors, with almost a billion copies of her novels sold. He had gone back to the States before she was born, and her mother had never been able to locate him.