Child’s Play by Danielle Steel – a Review

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Description:
A senior partner at a prestigious New York law firm, Kate Morgan couldn’t be prouder of her three grown children. Tamara, Anthony, and Claire all went to great schools, chose wonderful career paths, and would have made their father proud. A single mother for years after the death of her husband, Kate keeps a tight rein on her family, her career, and even her own emotions, never once asking herself if she truly knows her children . . . or if her hopes for them are the right ones, and what they want. She is about to find out.

During one hectic summer in Manhattan, Kate’s world turns upside down. One child has been keeping an astonishing secret while another confesses to an equally shocking truth. A wonderful match and picture-book wedding are traded for a relationship that shakes her to her core. A totally inappropriate love affair and an out-of-wedlock baby complete the chaos. Challenged as a mother and as a successful independent woman herself, Kate struggles to keep up with a dizzying and escalating chain of events, and begins to realize that she has a part to play in the chaos. Because Kate too has kept secrets from her children.

Sometimes the surprising choices our children make are the right ones . . . better than what we wanted for them. More often than not, parenting is about letting go of our dreams and embracing theirs.

Review:

Child’s Play by Danielle Steel is another one of her wonderful heartwarming standalone novel revolving around a family.  Child’s Play has some romance, but it is mostly about a family, children, life changing situations that had a bit of everything.

Kate Morgan is a successful senior partner in a law firm, who is in her mid-50’s, widowed and has three grown up children.  She is content and very happy; adores and is very proud of her wonderful successful children (Tammy, Anthony and Claire).  Kate is in the midst of a difficult and stressful case, but always keeps abreast of her children’s lives; but soon her perfect children will pull the rug from under her, making her look differently at her own life, as well as theirs.

First, her youngest daughter Claire, tells her mother that she is pregnant, loves her rich successful boyfriend, but refuses to marry him, as she does not believe in marriage. This disturbs Kate, as she tries to convince Claire that it is not in her best interest to have a child out of wedlock, especially since the father wants to marry her.

Her son Anthony, creates successful games, and is currently engaged, with a wedding upcoming in a few months, and Kate thinks he has the perfect fiancée. Soon Anthony will meet at the gym a model, who he begins to have an affair with, and knows that his feelings for the model is much more then with his spoiled fiancée.  Hence, he breaks his engagement and Kate now has to learn to deal with this.  The final daughter, Tammy, has kept a secret from her mother for 7 years; she is gay and in a relationship with someone during those years.  She finally tells her mother.  

At first Kate is in a state of shock, but she quickly learns to accept her children’s life changing surprises, even with Claire, who becomes difficult to deal with.  Kate will also have her own life changing experience, as she unexpectedly meets someone whom she never expected to find love with.

Child’s Play was a wonderful, heartwarming story that brings the family together, and we get to see each of them have their own happy endings.  Very well written by Danielle Steel. I thoroughly enjoyed Child’s Play.

Reviewed by Barb

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