Child`s Play

What do we do when our children don`t share our hopes for them? In Child`s Play, the world`s favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel, explores how families can evolve and grow in unexpected ways.You think you know what`s best for your grown-up children. But you`ll find they have lessons they can now teach you.Kate Morgan is an esteemed Manhattan lawyer. After losing her beloved husband in a tragic accident, she`s successfully raised their three children single-handedly. Now in their twenties, she slightly smugly feels that they are well set up to travel the path she planned. Except why is her eldest daughter, Tamara, a high-flying marketing executive, so secretive and why won`t she commit to a relationship? Then there`s Anthony, Kate`s middle child, who is engaged to a wealthy New York socialite - it will be the wedding of the year, so why doesn`t he seem happy? And as for her youngest daughter, Claire, at twenty-six she`s on a successful career path until she suddenly reveals she`s in love with, in Kate`s opinion, the`wrong man`.We all know that life rarely turns out the way we plan for our children. But it`s about listening, learning when to let go and letting them live the life that makes them happy.