Granny Dan (Unabridged)

by Danielle Steel

For over a decade, young Danina Petroskova has known no life but that of the ballet and her mentor Madame Markova. When a deathly illness steals her from the stage, the young dancer is inconsolable, and, desperate to speed her recovery, Madame Markova agrees to hand Danina over to the talented Dr. Nikolai Obrajensky for treatment. Convalescing with the Romanovs at the Tsarskoe Selo palace,... (read more)

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Vannessagrace
  • Rated 5 stars

Danielle Steel's Granny Dan is about love so intense it survives death. The woman a promising ballet dancer, the man a doctor to the ruling class, come together after she's lost her entire family to war. Their love is kept secret because he's married with a son. The war worsens and he gets his family out but he remains to serve. When he sees that the the war is going to be lost to those he serve he gets Danina, Granny Dan out sending her to America to live with his uncle telling her he'll...

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mazda502001
  • Rated 1 stars

I really have to fancy reading Danielle Steel - I just can't pick up one of her books and read it. Which is what happened with this book but I just couldn't get into it at all and only read about a quarter of it.

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She was the cherished grandmother who sang songs in Russian, loved to roller-skate, and spoke little of her past. But when Granny Dan died, all that remained was a box wrapped in brown paper. Inside, an old pair of satin ballet shoes, a gold locket,...

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    starshine said:

    This was a beautiful well written book by Danielle Steele. I was also a very sad book also and everyone does have a story to tell in their lives.

    posted Sunday, September 16 2007
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