In the end, perhaps nothing could have saved him from the insidious disease that had shadowed him from his earliest years.Īt once a loving legacy and an unsparing depiction of a devastating illness, Danielle Steel's tribute to her lost son is a gift of life, hope, healing, and understanding to us all. When he was finally diagnosed and treated, it bought time, but too little. He bared his soul in his journal with uncanny insight, in searing prose, poetry, and song. But by the time he entered junior high, Danielle Steel saw her beloved son hurtling toward disaster and tried desperately to get Nick the help he needed-the opening salvos of what would become a ferocious pitched battle for his life.Įven as he struggled, Nick's charisma and accomplishments remained undimmed. His gift for writing was extraordinary, his musical talent promised a golden future. Nick always marched to a different drummer. Aboard is beautiful, American-born Liane De Villiers, devoted to her much-older husband, the French ambassador to the United States, and her two daughters.
And at first, even his mother explained away his quicksilver moods. Despite rumors of impending war, the majestic ship Normandie makes its transatlantic voyage from Washington D.C., to France.He was a brilliant, charming child who never slept. Signs of his illness were subtle, often paradoxical. Nick rocketed through life like a shooting star. × Description of the book - His Bright Light But by the time he entered junior high, Danielle Steel saw her beloved son hurtling toward disast…
And at first, even his mother explained away his quicksilver moods. Her many international bestsellers include The Whittiers, The High Notes, The Challenge, Suspects, Beautiful, High Stakes, Invisible, Flying Angels, The Butler, and other highly acclaimed novels.She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina. Nick rocketed through life like a shooting star. Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world’s bestselling authors, with almost a billion copies of her novels sold. Sharing tender, painful memories and Nick's remarkable journals, Steel brings us a haunting duet between a singular young man and the mother who loved him-and a harrowing portrait of a masked killer called manic depression, which afflicts between two and three million Americans. This is Danielle Steel's powerful personal story of the son she lost and the lessons she learned during his courageous battle against darkness. It is the story of an illness, a fight to live, and a race against death."įrom the day he was born, Nick Traina was his mother's joy. "This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold, and a tortured soul.