Mixed Blessings

Pages: 369
Published: 1992
Language: English

After the wedding of Diana Goode and Andrew Douglas, Diana teases that they will make a baby on their honeymoon. But long afterward she is still not pregnant, and as the couple wait out each month only to be bitterly disappointed, they are forced to ask how much they are willing to endure to have a child.

Charlie Winwood dreams of a house filled with children. His bride, the party-girl actress Barbie Mason, has other ideas. When Charlie discovers he is sterile, he has to rethink his deepest values, and his marriage to a woman who shares none of his dreams.

After ten years of living together, Pilar Graham, a prominent Santa Barbara attorney, marries Judge Brad Coleman, nineteen years her senior and the father of two grown children. They are happy with their comfortable life together until Pilar begins to wonder whether she will one day regret not having a baby with Brad. Through these three couples, Danielle Steel examines the victories, defeats, tragedies and joys of building a modern family.

Prose complexity: 4/10

Emotional Hopeful Reflective

Multiple POVs Family Saga

Women's Fiction Contemporary Romance Contemporary Literature Drama Literary Fiction Romance

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...