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Danielle Steel's moving personal story of the son she lost to manic depression.This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold and a tortured soul.'From the day he was born, Nick Traina was his mother's joy. By nineteen, he was dead. This is Danielle Steel's powerful story of the son she lost and the lessons she learned during his courageous battle against darkness. Sharing tender, painful memories, Steel brings us a haunting duet between and singular young man and the mother who loved him - and a harrowing portrait of a masked killer called manic depression.Nick rocketed through life like a shooting star. He spoke in full sentences at the age of one. He was a brilliant, charming child who never slept. His gift for writing was extraordinary, his musical talent promised a golden future. But by the time he entered junior high, he was hurtling towards disaster. His mother tried desperately to get him the help he needed - the opening salvos for what would become a ferocious battle for his life. At 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. 'I want to share the story, and the pain, the courage, the love, and what I learned in living through it...My hope is that someone will be able to use what we learned, and save a life with it'

Editions · 5

Hardback
1998 · Delacorte Press
296 pp · EN
9780385333467
Hardback
1999 · Wheeler Publishing
397 pp · EN
9781568957104
Ebook
2009 · Random House Publishing Group
EN
9780307566508
Ebook
2009 · Transworld
EN
9781409091837
Paperback
2010 · Penguin Random House
416 pp · EN
9780552164191

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