Accident
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: E-book
ISBN-13: 9780307566324
Description: 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.From the Paperback edition.