EAN: 9781984821546

THE BUTLER - DANIELLE STEEL KARTONIERT (TB)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two different worlds and two very different lives collide in Paris
in this captivating novel by Danielle Steel. Joachim von Hartmann was born and raised in Buenos
Aires by his loving German mother  inseparable from his identical twin  Javier. When Joachim
moves to Paris with his mother in his late teens  his twin stays behind and enters a dark
world. Meanwhile  Joachim begins training to be a butler  fascinated by the precision and
intense demands  and goes on to work in some of the grandest homes in England. His brother
never reappears. Olivia White has given ten years of her life to her magazine  which failed 
taking all her dreams with it. A bequest from her mother allows her a year in Paris to reinvent
herself. She needs help setting up a home in a charming Parisian apartment. It is then that her
path and Joachim’s cross. Joachim takes a job working for Olivia as a lark and enjoys the
whimsy of a different life for a few weeks  which turn to months as the unlikely employer and
employee learn they enjoy working side by side. At the same time  Joachim discovers the family
history he never knew: a criminal grandfather who died in prison  the wealthy father who
abandoned him  and the dangerous criminal his twin has become. While Olivia struggles to put
her life back together  Joachim’s comes apart. Stripped of their old roles  they strive to
discover the truth about each other and themselves  first as employer and employee  then as
friends. Their paths no longer sure  they are a man and woman who reach a place where the past
doesn’t matter and only what they are living now is true.

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