Coming Out

Written by:
Danielle Steel
Narrated by:
David Garrison

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
36
Narrator
2
Release Date
June 2006
Duration
4 hours 5 minutes
Summary
Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has a busy legal career, a solid marriage, and a way of managing her thriving family with grace, humor, and boundless energy. With twin daughters finishing high school, a son at Dartmouth, and a kindergartner from her second marriage, there seems to be no challenge to which Olympia cannot rise. Until one sunny day in May, when she opens an invitation for her daughters to attend the most exclusive coming-out ball in New York–and chaos erupts all around her. One twin’s excitement is balanced by the other’s outrage; her previous husband’s profound snobbism is in sharp contrast to her current husband’s flat refusal to attend.

For Olympia’s husband, Harry, whose parents survived the Holocaust, the idea of a blue-blood debutante ball is abhorrent. Her daughter Veronica, a natural-born rebel, agrees– while Veronica’s identical twin, Virginia, is already shopping for the perfect dress. Then there’s Olympia’s ex, an insufferable snob, who sees the ball as the perfect opportunity for a family feud. And amid all the hubbub, Olympia’s college-age son, Charlie, is facing a turning point in his life–and may need his mother more than ever. But despite it all, Olympia is determined to steer her family through the event until, just days before the cotillion, things begin to unravel with alarming speed.

From a son’s crisis to a daughter’s heartbreak, from a case of the chicken pox to a political debate raging in her household, Olympia is on the verge of surrender. And that is when, in a series of startling choices and changes of heart, family, friends, and even a blue-haired teenager all find a way to turn a night of calamity into an evening of magic. As old wounds are healed, barriers are shattered and new traditions are born, and a debutante ball becomes a catalyst for change, revelation, acceptance, and love.

In a novel that is by turns profound, poignant, moving, and warmly funny, Danielle Steel tells the story of an extraordinary family–finding new ways of letting go, stepping up, and coming out...in the ways that matter most.
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karen c

brilliant I really enjoyed this book and it was read beautifully.

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Kandy

I liked the story line. I think it would have been better read by a woman. Maybe the mother in laws point of view.

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Wyo Girl

The only reason I finished this book was because I was sure that SOMETHING would have to happen before it ended. But, sadly, I was mistaken. NOTHING happened in this book. I always knew that Danielle Steele was a "lite" read, but really. The most interesting conflict that happens in the story is when the daughter gets a butterfly tattoo on her back. OMG! I don't understand how she stays on the best seller list with empty stories like this....as for me, I'm done. I've read and listened to my last one.

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Rody Canham Blair

Simple idea but not enough for a book. Would have made a wonderful short story but drags terribly as a book,

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