Danielle Steele Bungalow 2

Bungalow 2

Danielle Steele

Delacorte, Jun 26 2007 $27.00

ISBN: 9780385338318

Forty-two years old Tanya Harris loves her life in Marin County. She adores her spouse, a San Francisco based lawyer and cherishes their three teenage offspring. She enjoys writing scripts for the soaps and short stories. Her only unanswered dream from her youth is she always wanted to author a screenplay, but does not regret she has not.

However, suddenly her agent calls informing Tanya that Oscar winning producer Douglas Wayne wants her to write the screenplay for his next movie. She wants to fulfill her last fantasy, but worries about the impact on her family if she stays for several months in a posh Beverly Hills hotel; especially with her twin daughters starting their senior year in high school and her son his freshman year at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her husband and children send her off to the Beverly Hills Hotel where she adapts like she has been part of the Hollywood Rat pack all her life. However, weekends back in Marin County remind her that she is a wife and mother whose husband cheated on her and children who seem not to need her anymore.

Tanya is an interesting protagonist as she worries over worrying; spending much of the novel concerned with what her decision to go Hollywood is doing to her family. The cast in Marin County and Beverly Hills are supportive characters employed so that the reader can see how bone marrow deep Tanya's concerns for her spouse and children go. Although the action is limited, fans of family dramas will enjoy Danielle Steel's the apprehensive mom who took Hollywood but may be at the cost of Marin County.

Harriet Klausner