Malice

아름다운... 그러나 미치도록 불행했던 한 여자의 이야기...소설 초반부터 잘나가는 변호사 아버지의 성폭행 얘기로 시작된다.이후 2년간의 옥살이... 감옥에서의 끔찍한 생활...출옥이후 만만치 않은 사회생활과 아름다운 얼굴과 몸매로 주변에 침흘려대는 남성들 사이에서 피곤한 삶을 살게 된다.이 소설에서 보호감찰관은 정말 역겨울정도이다...다행히 진정으로 사랑해주는 남편을 만나 아이들도 낳고여주인공인 그레이스의 과거 때문에 결국 남편이 정치를 그만두게 되지만결국은 행복을 찾아가게 된다는 이야기...영어실력 향상을 위해 쉬운 다니엘 스틸의 책을 몇권 읽고 있는 중인데일종의 공식이 있는 듯 하다.아름다운 여주인공,등쳐먹는 나쁜놈그러나 결국엔 왕자 등장... 해피엔딩
In her 37th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells the compelling story of a woman who must struggle to overcome a shattering betrayal, and the cruelest kind of malice. At seventeen, the night of her mother s funeral, Grace Adams is attacked. It is not the first time, and a brutal crime ensues. And to everyone s horror, Grace will not tell the truth. She is a young woman with secrets too horrible to tell, with hurts so deep they may never heal. She is also beautiful enough for men to want her no matter how much she does not want them. Whatever the outcome, Grace Adams will have to live with whatever happened during those terrible years. After a lifetime of being a victim, now she must pay the price for other people s sins. From the depths of an Illinois women s prison to a Chicago modeling agency to a challenging career in New York, Grace must carry the past with her wherever she goes. And in healing her own pain, she reaches out to battered women and children who live a nightmare she knows all too well. When Grace meets Charles Mackenzie, a New York lawyer, she has found a man who wants nothing from her-except to heal her, to hear her secrets, and to give her the family she so desperately wants. But, with happiness finally within her grasp, and precious loved ones to protect, Grace is at her most vulnerable-in danger of losing everything to a vicious tabloid press and an enemy from her past, an enemy bent on malice at all costs. With rare insight and power, Danielle Steel writes this extraordinary woman s story, portraying her struggle to triumph over malice and betrayal, and to transform a lifetime of pain into a blessing for others. Revealing both the starkreality of domestic abuse and the healing power of love, Malice, is more than superb fiction. It is a piece of life.