Accident: A Novel
by By Steel, Danielle
Category: Fiction , General

Accident is a powerful and  ultimately triumphant novel of lives shattered and  changed  by one devastating moment.  Although frequent business meetings keep her husband,   Brad, away from home, Page Clarke feels blessed  with her happy family and comfortable  marriage.  They have a house near San Francisco and she keeps  busy looking after  their seven-year-old son, Andy,  and their teenage daughter, Allyson. Allyson,  at fifteen, is trying her wings and one  weekend, instead of an evening with her  friend Chloe,  the girls lie and go out with two older high  school boys. But a Saturday  night that was supposed  to be fun ends in tragedy when their car collides  head-on  with another. At the hospital,  Page finds Chloe's divorced father, Trygve, and,   unable to locate Brad, she leans on his strength  throughout the the long hours  of tormenting  questions. Will Allyson live? Will any of them? Were the  teenagers  drinking? Using drugs? Who was at  fault? And where is her husband? Without Brad  by her  side Page feels her life start to come apart as she  is forced to confront  the fact that Allyson may  not live, and if she does, she may never be the  same  again.  In an inspiring novel that  explores how many people are affected by one  tragic  accident and how they survive it, Danielle Steel  brings us close to the  characters whose lives are  as familiar as our own... and who live, as we all  do,  in a world where everything can change in a  single moment.