The Planet that Wasn'tAll were orphans when they met in their teens in the late seventies, and they vowed to be a family. As they reunite at a film party in London, it is Rosalind Madigan, the angel of the title, who holds them together. An Academy Award-winning designer blessed with innate goodness, Rosie is troubled by commitments that leave her feeling estranged from herself and her friends: Gavin Ambrose, a Hollywood megastar, a brilliant actor/producer whose personal life is not as successful as it appears (Nell Jeffrey, head of an international public relations firm and Rosie's best friend, a glamorous woman having a secret love affair (and Kevin Madigan, Rosie's brother, an undercover cop in the NYPD Crime Intelligence Division who specializes in fighting organized crime, an assignment that threatens his life. Into their midst come a dashing French aristocrat and the world's most successful popular singer, two men who disrupt--and irrevocably transform--"the family."... ANGEL Told with the power that only Barbara Taylor Bradford can bring to the page, this stunning novel is about a group of friends--and also about individuals who, facing their own mortality, must reevaluate their lives and strengthen their commitments. Exciting and moving, it will fascinate you from beginning to end. From the Paperback edition. |
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... astronomer , Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier , published a careful calculation of Mercury's orbit and found that small discrepancies persisted . His calculations , carried out in inor- dinate detail , showed that after all conceivable ...
... astronomer , Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier , published a careful calculation of Mercury's orbit and found that small discrepancies persisted . His calculations , carried out in inor- dinate detail , showed that after all conceivable ...
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... astronomer William Herschel , studying Mars in the 1770s and 1780s , noted the presence of an atmos- phere on Mars and detected color changes with the seasons . All of this was important in connection with the problem of life on other ...
... astronomer William Herschel , studying Mars in the 1770s and 1780s , noted the presence of an atmos- phere on Mars and detected color changes with the seasons . All of this was important in connection with the problem of life on other ...
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... astronomers in the decades that followed also tried to draw maps . One of them was an English astronomer , Richard An- thony Proctor , who drew a map of Mars in 1867 and was so confident of his results that he decided to name the ...
... astronomers in the decades that followed also tried to draw maps . One of them was an English astronomer , Richard An- thony Proctor , who drew a map of Mars in 1867 and was so confident of his results that he decided to name the ...
Contents
1THE PLANET THAT WASNT | 1 |
2THE OLYMPIAN SNOWS | 13 |
3TITANIC SURPRISE | 25 |
Copyright | |
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