Book info

• Title Silent Night
• Author Danielle Steel
• Year 2019
• Genre Romance

Paige Watts is the ultimate stage mother. The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Paige channels her own acting dreams into making her daughter, Emma, a star. By the age of nine, Emma is playing a central role in a hit TV show. Then everything is shattered by unforeseeable tragedy. Now Emma is living with her Aunt Whitney, who had chosen a very different path from Paige. Whitney was always the career-driven older sister, loving a no-strings relationship and hating the cult of celebrity that enveloped her family. But at a moment’s notice, Whitney must change her life in every way. Will the rewards of motherhood make up for the life she left behind?

Thoughts

As with the last Danielle Steele book I read, it takes a while to adjust to the style here - arms length storytelling, describing what happens as time passes rather than getting stuck into specific scenes. But the characters are interesting and the story is great, and it feels very soap-like, I just want to know what happens next. This one was a pretty emotional story, too, about a young girl injured in an accident that has to learn how to find herself again, and not only that, realising that who she was before may not be the ideal version of herself as well. A good read.

Rating: 3 / 5