The Gift (Danielle Steel)

The complete gift of love I have never read a book where my emotions were so raw. I loved Maribeth and her heart and selflessness. Having so much love that you completely give everything for the love of that person no matter how matter the that it brought you. This book truly has been a gift.. "As always -- Great" according to Kindle Customer. This was another one of the many great reads that Ms. Steele has given us. There is always a message for the readers to take to heart.. Five Stars Lucinda Wollesen Gift

She doesn't intend to stay. The place is a small midwestern town with a high school and a downtown, a skating pond and a movie house. And all of their lives will be changed forever by the precious gift she leaves them.The Gift, Danielle Steel's thirty-third best-selling work, is a magical story told with stunning simplicity and power. It reveals a relationship so moving it will take your breath away. On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town. She is just passing throug

. The two lonely adolescents slowly fall in love; Tommy offers to marry Maribeth, but she refuses, claiming that they are too young to be parents; she plans to give the child up for adoption. It's 1952, and the Whittakers are the perfect happy family. From Publishers Weekly Steel deviates sharply from her usual romance formula in this tender if sometimes sappy story about bad things happening to good people. Eventually, the Whittakers, parents and son, help Maribeth to cope with her pregnancy and her family's rejection, while she helps them accept the death of their beloved Annie. Reading more like a novella than a full-