Palazzo by Danielle Steel is another engrossing novel by this super-popular author that tells of an Italian family and the inheritance of their parents’ haute couture leather company.
Cosima Saverio takes charge of her parents’ company after their unforeseen death in a yachting accident. Besides taking on the responsibilities of running the company at the tender age of twenty-three, Cosima also faces other challenges.
In addition, she needs to also oversee the maintenance of the elegant, but deteriorating, four-hundred-year-old family palazzo in Venice, AND care for her younger siblings. These are Allegra, who survived the calamity that killed their parents, and Luca, who has a predilection for wild parties, beautiful women and gambling!
Cosima deals with these personal and professional challenges with an understanding beyond her years. Time spent on all these, however, put her own needs on the back burner.
The business, and the reliance put upon her by her siblings, and others, give her little or no time for her own life’s needs.
Then Olivier Bayard, the founder of France’s most successful ready-to-wear handbag company, enters her life!
With Luca’s gambling habits increasing, however, Cosima finds herself forced to make an impractical choice to save him. Or should she turn her back on Luca and focus her attention on the palazzo and the family business? Could there be a way to rescue everything she has battled for before it all goes up in smoke?
The novel is set in the magnificent backdrops of Rome and Venice, which are enhanced by the beauty of a crumbling family palazzo. The idiosyncrasies of the fashion scene and its players, plus the wickedness of a recalcitrant brother and grief over a fast-fading lover, what’s not to like about this intricately fashioned new novel by such a well-loved author?
Palazzo is a must-read for all her fans and those who love a darn good story!
ISBN: 9781761267604
Palazzo is available in hardback, paperback and e-book
About Danielle Steel
Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world’s most popular authors, with a billion copies of her novels sold worldwide. Her recent many international bestsellers include Dangerous Games, Against All Odds and The Duchess. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina’s life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless; and the children’s books Pretty Minnie in Paris and Pretty Minnie in Hollywood. Danielle divides her time between Paris and her home in northern California.