There's a reason Danielle Steel sells so many books. Some 370 million copies of her novels at last count. She is, in the way these things are gauged, one of our planet's most popular novelists.
Steel writes well, builds compelling characters and knows how to tell a story.
A world that doesn't worry too much about recycling or mortgage payments or how to come up with the cash for the kids' orthodontics bill. In this way The Klone and I is classic Steel. The Klone and I 's main character is Stephanie, a 40-something Manhattan matron with a big, fat trust fund and no discernible flaws of form or character. Unimpressed with what she finds there, she resumes her life with her two children until they go to spend the summer with their father and his new wife in Europe. While in Paris she spends a lot of time buying great underwear and meets the perfect man.