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Fine Things

An Epic, Romantic Read from the Worldwide Bestseller
Pages
432
Published
1987
Language
English

Synopsis

Smart and likable, Bernie Fine is the wonder boy of Wolff's, New York's most glamorous department store. A senior vice president on the way up, he arrives in San Francisco to open a West Coast store. His career is skyrocketing, but his life is lacking a center.

Then he looks into the wide, innocent eyes of five-year-old Jane O'Reilly, and then into the equally enchanting eyes of her mother, Liz, and knows he has found what he has been looking for. Bernie believes he has found a love to last a lifetime. But when Liz is stricken with cancer shortly after the birth of their first child together, time becomes painfully short.

Alone with two children, Bernie must face the loss and learn how to move on: new people, new experiences, a new life. He meets it with courage and humor, and learns some of life's hard but precious lessons as he does.

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About the author

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Danielle Steel

Danielle Steel — born Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel on 14 August 1947 in New York City — is an American novelist, best known for her best-selling romance fiction. The only child of John Schuelein-Steel and Norma da Câmara Stone dos Reis, she was raised in Paris and New York after her parents divorced, graduated from the Lycée Français at fifteen, and went on to study at the Parsons School of Design and New York University. Her first novel, Going Home, was published in 1973. As of...

Characters

Bernard FineProtagonist
Liz O'ReillyProtagonist

A San Francisco schoolteacher and single mother to Jane; she marries Bernie and is later stricken with cancer.

Bernie FineProtagonist

A senior vice president at Wolff's department store, sent to San Francisco to open a West Coast branch.

Jane O'ReillySupporting

Liz's five-year-old daughter when Bernie first meets them.

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