Danielle Steel, Sisters

Sisters

Danielle Steel

Delacorte, Feb 2007, $27.00

ISBN: 0385340222

The four sisters have come a long way from their affluent Manhattan home. The youngest, twenty-one-year-old Candy is a supermodel working in Paris; twenty-six-year-old artist Annie is studying painting in Florence; twenty-nine-year-old Tammy works as a TV producer in Los Angeles; and finally, the oldest, thirty-four-year-old Sabrina is a hard-working New York attorney.

No matter where they are or what they are doing, the siblings return to the home of their parents to celebrate Independence Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. However, during their latest family get-together, a car accident leaves mommy dead and Annie blind. Sabrina suggests they grieve together in a New York brownstone. Over the next year, each of the sisters are there for each other. The 6'1" 116 pound Candy can no longer hide her eating disorder, Annie struggles with being unable to paint, Tammy adapts to having real life relationships and Sabrina deals with her commitment phobia. They bond as the four musketeers realize it is all for one and one for all.

Danielle Steel has written her strongest tale in years with this inspirational saga of four sisters coming together seeking solace from a tragedy, but slowly with the help of one another obtaining so much more. Readers will appreciate each of the siblings as unique individuals with personality flaws that hamper them from becoming complete as people. This strong novel hooks the audience from the opening scene in Paris to the final look back at the wager they made one year earlier.

Harriet Klausner