Rose McCarthy is portrayed as a picture perfect character in the novel. She can rightly be called the beauty with brains. Her achievements in the field are awesome and her personality is superb too. Danielle Steel created this character to show that a person without a flaw can exist in this world. Then slowly in the second half of the story, the cracks in Rose’s personality begin to show up and everyone realizes that she has been hiding certain things.
The editor in chief with a perfect personality and gentle voice had everything in her life but that is only her professional life and she has not allowed anyone to enter into her personal life. Her life has been linked to the fashion industry in one way or another other and this has kept her inner thoughts and moods hidden from everyone. Jim Frangione has narrated two different personalities of the same character here.
One is the ever engaging one and the second is that of the lonely being which Rose truly is from the inside. The Whittiers and Fall from Grace have two characters in it that go side by side in the story but it is not happening in this one.
The story remains dominated by the personality of a single woman for most of the part and the secondary characters don’t get a lot of time here to dominate the scenes. Still, it is a good story with characters who are facing certain issues that need to be resolved as quickly as possible because they are eating them up from the inside. No one can take pressure for a very long time and this can really destroy all the achievements.
