5 Minutes With... Danielle Steel

The latest novel from international bestselling author of Precious Gifts, Prodigal Son and A Perfect Life is The Duchess (Pan Macmillan)

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The Duchess in a nutshell? A historical novel set in the 19th century about an aristocratic woman who loses her father, her home and everything when her stepbrother from her father’s first marriage inherits according to the laws of the time. Cast out of her home at 18 with no means of support, she goes to Paris and forges a life surrounded by powerful people, living in the shadows, her identity a mystery, as she moves forward, finding new challenges at every turn.