Once in a lifetime.

Description:

Millions adored Daphne Fields, for she shared their passion, their pain, their joy, and their sorrow. But America's most popular novelist remained a closed book to the world -- guarding her life with a fierce privacy no reporter could crack. Her life hides a myriad of secrets. The husband and daughter she lost in a fire. The son who barely survived it and would be deaf forever. The victories, the defeats, the challenges of facing life as a woman alone and helping her son meet the challenges of his handicap. A strong woman, she would not accept defeat, or help from anyone ... until she found she could no longer face it alone.

subjects: Fiction,  Drama,  Romance,  Impossible love stories,  Fire,  Family,  Tragedy,  Deaf son,  Modern,  Contemporary Romance,  Love story,  Women authors,  Families,  Large type books,  Écrivaines,  Romans, nouvelles,  Familles,  Fiction, romance, contemporary,  Man-woman relationships, fiction,  Open Library Staff Picks,  Marriage, fiction,  Romance fiction,  Norwegian fiction,  Translations from English,  Translations into Norwegian,  English fiction,  Novelists,  French language materials,  Women novelists,  Patients,  Fiction, romance, general,  Authors, fiction,  Women painters,  Marriage,  Divorce,  Traffic accident victims,  Widows,  Veuves,  Victimes d'accidents de la route

People: Deanna,  Marc-Edouard Duras,  Pilar Duras

Places: San Francisco,  California

Times: 1980s