No matter where she goes, her label as a collaborator remains, until her granddaughter, a respected political journalist, embarks on a journey to see her grandmother recognized as the war hero she was. There, she begins a new life that eventually takes her to New York, from a career as a Dior model to marriage and motherhood, unbearable loss, and mature, lasting love when she returns to France. But when the war draws to a close, she is falsely accused of collaboration, and flees to Paris in disgrace. In the final days of the war, she executes a plan to help save France's art treasures. Conducted in secret, her missions for the Resistance will mark her for years. Taking terrifying risks, Gaëlle becomes a member of the Resistance, fearlessly delivering Jewish children to safety underneath the eyes of the Gestapo and their French collaborators. In a matter of months, her father and brother are killed, her mother descends into madness, and her closest friend, Rebekah Feldmann, is sent to a detention camp. But with her aunt Whitney’s help, along with a team of caregivers and doctors, Emma begins to find her way, starting her young life all over again-and changing the lives of everyone around her.Įmotionally gripping and richly involving, Silent Night explores how the heart has mysterious healing powers of its own, and blessings happen when we think all is lost.Gaëlle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France. Once famous, outgoing, and charismatic, Emma is now a shadow of her former self-without speech, without memory, lost and terrified. But at a moment’s notice, Whitney drops everything to help her niece. Instead, she is a psychiatrist who lives for her work and enjoys a no-strings-attached love affair with a wealthy venture capitalist. Whitney was always the studious older sister, hating the cult of celebrity that enveloped their childhood. Now Emma is living with her aunt Whitney, who had chosen a very different path from her sister’s.
Then everything is shattered by unforeseeable tragedy.
By the age of nine, Emma is playing a central role in a hit TV show. The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Paige channels her acting dreams into making her own daughter, Emma, a star. Paige Watts is the ultimate stage mother. Danielle Steel’s latest novel is a deeply moving story of resilience and hope. And the childless aunt who transforms her own world to help her.
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