Winners
A Novel
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Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Even the most perfect lives can be shattered in an instant. In this moving, emotionally charged novel, Danielle Steel introduces readers to an unforgettable cast of characters striving to overcome tragedy and discover the inner resources and resilience to win at life—once again.
WINNERS
Lily Thomas is an aspiring ski champion training for the Olympics, a young woman with her heart set on winning the gold. But in one moment, Lily’s future is changed forever, her hopes for the Olympics swept away in a tragic accident.
Dr. Jessie Matthews, the neurosurgeon who operates on her that night, endures a tragedy of her own, and instantly becomes the sole support of her four young children, while her own future hangs in the balance.
Bill, Lily’s father, has pinned all his hopes on his only daughter, his dreams now shattered.
Other lives will entwine themselves with theirs: Joe, a financial manager, faces a ruined career at the hand of a dishonest partner. Carole, a psychologist at Mass General, is a breast cancer survivor, her body and heart scarred by what she’s been through. Teddy, with a spinal cord injury worse than Lily’s, dreams of college and becoming an artist.
From the ashes of their lives, six people fight to alter the course of destiny and refuse to be defeated. When Bill builds a remarkable rehab facility for his daughter, countless lives are forever altered, and each becomes a winner.
Winners is about refusing to be beaten, no matter how insurmountable the challenge. And when Lily gets on skis again and enters the Paralympics, the battle to brave life again is won.
Winners is about more than surviving, it is about courage, victory, and triumph. When all appears to be lost, the battle has just begun.
BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Danielle Steel's Pegasus.
Praise for Winners
“Steel skillfully weaves the strands of the Matthews and Thomas families together in a layered story. . . . Together, they discover friendship, loyalty, and new dreams.”—Publishers Weekly
“[Winners] will leave readers crying and cheering.”—Booklist
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Steel's latest (after First Sight), Olympian hopeful Lily Thomas is injured in a freak ski-lift accident while on vacation in Squaw Valley. Her father, business tycoon Bill Thomas, refuses to accept that his talented daughter, on her way to the Ivy League, will never again walk let alone ski. He blames Lily's neurosurgeon, Jessie Matthews, for missing something and vows to go to the best specialists until he finds his miracle. Jessie understands how Bill feels, as she is forced to face new parenting challenges of her own when her husband is killed in a car crash the same night as Lily's accident, leaving Jessie alone to care for her four children. Although Jessie and Bill start out as adversaries, they quickly become partners in Lily's treatment and, as Bill plows ahead with his plans for a state-of-the-art rehab facility for kids, they become colleagues. Steel skillfully weaves the strands of the Matthews and Thomas families together in a layered story about loneliness and companionship that is marred only by stilted prose. Lily may be the patient, but all the adults are struggling with loneliness and the desire to feel important, needed, and relevant. Together, they discover friendship, loyalty, and new dreams.
Customer Reviews
Winners
I wanted a few more pages for Bill and Jessie's married life. Wished it did not end yet.
Very moving & highly recommended!
Though not a new book, Danielle Steel’s "Winners" is one of the most moving books that I have read in a long time. This is the story of an Olympic-level athlete who is suddenly rendered paraplegic by an accident, and who must build a new life. I had to remind myself that this was fiction, because the characters were so authentic. I can attest to this because of my husband's year of paralysis (from an illness, Guillain-Barre Syndrome). My only "complaint" is that one of the doctors in the novel stated that patients want to get away from the hospital, thinking that they can leave their condition behind. I haven't ever known a single serious patient who believes that. Instead, the patients want to return home for several reasons including: They want to be in their familiar, comforting environment,they want to be where they will have a little more control over their routine, they want to be where they can see their pets every day. There is something therapeutic about going home; it is a step toward the "new hormal." But otherwise, this is a wonderful book, for which I have two hopes. I hope that Ms. Steele will follow up on these characters; a sequel would be awesome. In addition, this would make a great movie!
Love this book!!!!!
So well written as usual by DS. I was sad when it ended as I wanted the story to continue. Well worth your time to read!
