A Good Woman

Steel toys with the premise of a modern woman, though the characterization of Annabelle as a good woman who has been dragged through the mud somewhat mitigates her strength and elemental stubbornness. From Publishers Weekly Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington, the only daughter of a wealthy New York banker, weathers a life of unexpected catastrophe with superhuman patience in Steel's solid latest. . After two years of unconsummated marriage, he reveals that he's contracted syphilis and wants a divorce so he can join his male lover. After her father and brother die in the sinking of the Titanic, Annabelle and her mother go into mourning, and Annabelle marries the kindly older banker Josiah Millbank. When Annabelle refuses to divorce him, Josiah files for it on the basis of adultery, forcing Annabelle, now the victim of vicious rumors, to flee New York. Steel's fans will eat this up—Annabel

"This was recommended by a friend" according to Pattie. I gave up on Danielle Steel a few years ago all novels had the same pitch, and it became not enjoyable to read her, after, reading many many of her books This was recommended by a friend, who could not put it down That's what I like to hear about a book I was totally into it as well, and will try Ms Steel anothe. She showed us the love of a mother/daughter relationship Betty I would give it a hundred stars, if possible! I think Ms Steel out did herself in the writing of this book. She showed us the love of a mother/daughter relationship, husband/wife, woman/country, and all of this in the first half of the book. This we did a complete turn and she was pursuing a career in medicine w. "The Best Ever!" according to Marcia Wegmann. I loved this book so much I did not want it to end; it was VERY interesting from beginning to end with many twists and turns that were woven into the plot. One of this author's must reads, I think!

Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, but everything changed on an April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic changed her family and her world forever. There, in the heart of the First World War, in a groundbreaking field hospital run by women, Annabelle finds her true calling, studying medicine and saving lives. Betrayed, and pursued by undeserved scandal, Annabelle flees New York for war-ravaged France, hoping to lose herself in a life of service. And when the war ends, Annabelle begins a new life in Paris – now a doctor, a mother, her past almost forgotten until a fateful meeting opens her heart to the world she had left behind.Finding strength in the most unlikely of friendships, pulling together the broken fragments of her life, Annabelle will return to New York one more time -- this time a changed woman, a woman of substance, infused with life's experience, building a future filled with hopeout of the rich soil of the past.. Finding s