Summer's End

by Danielle Steel

Book Overview

Deanna was eighteen when she married a handsome Frenchman, attorney Marc-Edouard Duras. Now, at thirty-seven, she should be happy with Marc, her elegant home in San Francisco, and their teenage... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440184185
• ISBN13: 9780440184188
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
• Length: 383 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.

Customer Reviews

My favorite

A sweet love story with sadness & betrayal. Love love love it.

Loved it!

This is the first Danielle Steele book I've read and it will definitely not be my last. I really enjoyed reading this book. By the time I got to chapter 25, I was wishing that I could read faster because I couldn't wait to find out what was going to happen. I was torn between 5 and 4 stars. I chose 5 stars because it has been 2 weeks since I finished the book and I'm still thinking about it. Why I even entertained 4 stars is because the characters committed adultery. From the very begining you can tell that this was going to happen and I didn't like that betrayal was involved. As I continued to read the book, I fell in love with Ben. It took a while to like Deanna because an affair is still an affair but I enventually started to feel for her. Overall, I recommend this to anyone who likes a good love story.

Loved it!

This is the first Danielle Steele book that I've read and it will definitely not be the last. I couldn't put it down. By the time I got to chapter 25, I was wishing that I could read faster. I couldn't wait to find out what was going to happen to the characters. I was kind of torn between 5 and 4 stars. I decided 5 stars because after 2 weeks after finsihing the book, I'm still thinking about it. I can't stop thinking about Ben and Deanna. Why I even entertained a 4 rating is that this story involves adultery. In the beginning of the book, it's quite clear what's going to happen and I didn't like that there was betrayal involved. As I continued to read, I fell in love with Ben. It took a while to like Deanna because an affair is still an affair but then I eventually started to feel for her. Overall, I recommend this book to anyone who likes a good love story.

A book about choices

This was a super book, one to curl up with or take to the beach..you can't put it down though! This is a story about life and it's tragedies. It's a story about love and the choices we all make. The story does a good job at making you feel what the characters are feeling. It is a story that can give us hope to find the courage to make changes in our own lives, to not be afraid to go after what we want.

An outstanding inquiry showing us that there can be more

This is the first Danielle Steel book that I have ever read. Of all the others that I have truly enjoyed, this is the one I keep coming back to. Steel writes an amazing story of a woman who loses what she never really had to gain only something that dreams are made of. Her philandering husband cares only for himself and his daughter as he pushes Deanna away. Deanna in return learns quickly that the only person she will ever have in her life ever again is a blessing that had been bestowed upon her: Ben Thompson. A captivating story reminding us to open and follow our hearts and to never look back only to regret. This is a book that you will come back to more than once in your journey reading all the great and wonderful Danielle Steel books.

Summers End

This book was about a woman who never sees her husband because hes always away on business. Deanna is a really good painter, but her husband insists she paint for fun, that she didn't need a career and one in painting was for second rate people. At the begining of summer Deanna meets a art dealer who thinks her paintings are wonderfull and wants to sell them in art gallerys. In the mean time they fall in love ... and make a promise that the relationship will be over at summers end. Deanna feels guilty at first, but the more they are together, she forgets about her husband... and the more they begin to wish the summer will never end. Later Deanna finds out that her husband has been having a affair for years. I left out a considerable amount of the book. This book has tragedy, love, lies, decite and much, much more. I would definetly recommend this book!