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    The Ghost

    Written by Danielle Steel

    Narrated by Joe Grifasi

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    About this audiobook

    With a wife he loves and an exciting London-based career, architect Charles Waterston's life seems in perfect balance. Nothing prepares him for the sudden end to his ten-year marriage-or his unwanted transfer to his firm's New York office.

    Christmas is approaching when Charlie leaves New York, heading to Vermont to ski. But a sudden snowstorm strands him in a small Massachusetts town. There Charlie meets an elderly widow who offers to rent him her exquisite lakeside chateau. Hidden deep in the woods, it once belonged to a woman who lived there two centuries before named Sarah Ferguson. And from the moment Charlie sets foot inside the chateau, he feels her presence.

    When Charlie first glimpses her, a beautiful young woman with jet-black hair, he thinks it is a neighbor playing a joke. Until he finds her diaries hidden away in an old trunk. As he begins to turn the brittle, dusty pages, the spirit of Sarah Ferguson seems to fill his life. Sarah's first entry is dated 1789 as she writes of her harrowing journey from her native England, having fled the brutality of her aristocratic husband. Settling in Massachusetts, Sarah finds an unfamiliar land seething with the turbulence of the Indian wars. As she builds her home in the wilderness and meets a man who will transform her life, Sarah finds freedom from the torment of her past. His name is Francois de Pellerin, a French nobleman adopted by Indians and drawn into the battle for the growing nation. Their fateful union is a testament to a love so powerful it reaches across the centuries. And for Charlie Waterston, their story gives him the courage to let go of his past, and the freedom to grasp a future that is right before his eyes.

    In The Ghost, Danielle Steel brilliantly interweaves past and present, bringing to life two stories, centuries apart, in a timeless novel of courage, healing, and love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 5, 2000
    ISBN9780553752397
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    The Ghost
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    Danielle Steel

    Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world's most popular authors, with over 650 million copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include Property of a Noblewoman, Blue, Precious Gifts, Undercover, Country, Prodigal Son, Pegasus, A Perfect Life, and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina's life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless; and the children's books Pretty Minnie in Paris and Pretty Minnie in Hollywood.

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    • 5/5
      So sad...this story took a bit out of me.
    • 2/5
      This book was terrible. If it wasn't for my inability to not finish a book I would have thrown it out of the window. None of the characters were well developed, they whined constantly and the repetitiveness. Oh my god the repetitiveness!

      On page 300 I do not need to be told that the mc is upset because his wife left him - I learned that on page 1. There was nothing left to common sense or the imagination. I don't like it when a writer treats me like I have the attention span of a gnat.

      Someone told me that this was the best Danielle Steele book. If this is the best, I don't even want to think about what the other books are like!
    • 5/5
      I was given this book by a family friend after admitting that I had recently read my first Danielle Steel novel and enjoyed her writing. She suggested it because it was a book she had enjoyed. I still have the copy, and another that I bought after the first got worn from re-reading.

      The story was, and still is, a favourite...it's inspirational, it's original and well written. I love the romance, the unexpected parts, the parts where I cried my eyes out, every time I read it, no matter how long it had been. In the beginning, when I first got it, I would read it, start to finished, cover to cover, and then start all over again straight away. That's how good this is.
    • 5/5
      So sad...this story took a bit out of me.
    • 5/5
      One of the best books I’ve ever read and reread. I read this book 20 years ago and I remember it touched my heart. I couldn’t remember all of the details so rereading it or listening to it now was like a new adventure.
    • 4/5
      It switched between the contemporary story of Charles Waterston. Charlie's wife has left him, he is transferred to a job he hates in New York. Charlie takes a leave of absence and drives through New England. As a snow storm builds he stops in a small town in Massachusetts. There he meets an elderly widow who befriends him. He rents a house that had been built for a woman named Sarah Ferguson. He finds her diaries and learns her story.Sarah Ferguson flees her abusive husband in England to come to America. Sarah survives the dangerous trip across the sea and builds in America. We meet Francois de Pellerin, a French nobleman. Francois had lived among the Indians. They face the Indian Wars.I really enjoyed both story lines.Charles meets Monique and her mother Francesca.
    • 4/5
      It is a fun book and a quick read, though very predictable. It is a story within a story. The main character finds a journal written in the 1700s by a woman named Sara. I really like the story of Sara. (However it does annoy me that Sara's journal was written as a novel and not in the first person.)
    • 5/5
      Inhaltsangabe:Charles Waterston ist erfolgreicher Architekt und glücklich verheiratet mit der erfolgreichen Anwältin Carole. Schon seit zehn Jahren führen sie eine glückliche Ehe, so denkt Charles zumindest. Um so bestürzter ist er, als seine Frau ihm eröffnet, daß sie sich von ihm trennen möchte. Nach zehn Jahren Ehe hat sie sich einem anderen Mann zugewendet. Charles‘ Schmerz ist groß und nur schwer überwindet er die Trennung.Es widerstrebt ihm, daß seine Firma ihn nach New York schickt, denn er fühlte sich in Londen sehr wohl. In New York findet er allerdings auch keine neue Erfüllung, im Gegenteil: Die Arbeit ist ihm zuwider. Um sein Leben neu zu ordnen, nimmt er sich auf unbestimmte Zeit Urlaub und reist ins verschneite Deerfield. Nur rein zufällig klopft er an das Haus der gütigen alten Dame Gladys Palmer. Ihr Leben ist ebenso gezeichnet wie das von Charles und schnell verstehen sie sich gut.Sie besitzt ein altes Chateau, daß schon Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts erbaut wurde. In Deerfield und Shelburne Falls gehen mysteriöse Geschichten umher, daß die erste Besitzerin des Hauses, Countess Sarah de Pellerin, noch als Geist dort weilen würde. Charles glaubt diesen Geschichten nicht, ist aber von der magischen Anziehungskraft des Chateaus fasziniert. Gladys vermietet ihm das Haus und er richtet sich dort. Auf mysteriöse Art und Weise findet er dort intime Tagebücher der Countess und nichts ahnend, was die Bücher ihm bringen würden, beginnt er zu lesen.Von Anfang an ist er von der unglaublichen Leidensgeschichte der Countess fasziniert, kann sich kaum von den Aufzeichnungen losreißen. Sie offenbaren ihm auch eine unvergleichliche Liebesgeschichte zwischen der Countess und dem Counte François de Pellerin, der sich mit den indianischen Stämmen verbündet hatte und stets versuchte, zwischen allen Beteiligten Frieden zu stiften.Charles begann damit seinen eigenen Kummer mit anderen Augen zu betrachten und die Begegnung mit der reizenden alleinerziehenden Francesca geben ihm sogar Mut, an eine neue Liebe zu glauben. Doch auch Francesca ist ein gebranntes Kind. Helfen Sarahs Tagebuchaufzeichnungen ihnen, die Kraft für eine neue Zukunft zu finden?Mein Fazit:Es ist ein unglaubliches Buch. Der Anfang ist etwas mühselig, das muß man leider zugeben, aber wenn man etwas Ausdauer hat, wird man nicht enttäuscht. Erst durch die Tagebuchaufzeichnungen wird das Buch richtig interessant und schließlich wird man regelrecht mitgerissen. Letztendlich mußte ich mir ein paar Tränchen verkneifen, was mir nicht sehr oft bei einem Roman passiert. Sehr faszinierend sind auch die Schilderungen der indianischen Bräuche und damaligen Ereignisse. Ein wahrer Danielle Steel – Roman, wärmstens zu empfehlen!Anmerkung: Die Rezension stammt vom Februar 2001.
    • 4/5
      This is one of Steel's better novels. Very little rich life style. The interspersion of the two love stories worked well.
    • 4/5
      I haven't read a Danielle Steel novel in a really long time. I saw this one at my favorite used book store dollar sale and since the premise sounded interesting I decided to give it a go. Danielle Steel's writing is incredibly stylized and unique to her. Every word is written to convey the utmost correctness and manners. It's like your old proper English teacher is telling you a story. There is no doubt that her writing is very elegant but grates on me after awhile. Her story ideas are always wonderful but sometimes the execution leaves me cold. This novel begins in the present day with Charlie who has just been left by his wife Carole for the man she has been having an affair with. Even though Charlie is a cuckold, he still manages to keep things civil with Carole because in Steel's worlds manners are everything. Charlie leaves his home in England to go on an extended vacation in Vermont in order to get his head on straight. He ends up living in a house built for an English woman settler named Sarah by her French husband Francois in the late 1700's. Charlie finds Sarah's journals (and ghost!) in the house and learns about her love story with Francois. That story coupled with new acquaintance Francesca allows Charlie to finally move past the loss of his wife and into his future.Sarah's story was the most interesting part of the book for me and the main reason to read it. This is a good book to read if your heading to the beach or just want to check out of reality for awhile. If you enjoy Danielle Steel novels you know what you are getting.