When a beautiful young Frenchwoman and a brilliant American actor meet in wartime Paris, their love begins like a fairy tale but ends in tragedy. Suddenly orphaned, their three children are cruelly separated. Megan, the baby, adopted by a family of comfortable means, becomes doctor in the rural Appalachia. Alexandra, raised in lavish wealth, marries a powerful man whose pride is his pedigree and who assumes that Alexandra is her parents' natural offspring. Neither of them has the remotest suspicion that she is adopted, or what turbulent tragedy lurks in her past. And Hilary, oldest of the Walker children, remembers them all, and the grief that tore them apart and cast them into separate lives. Feeling the loss throughout her life, and unable to find her sisters, she builds an extraordinary career and has no personal life. When John Chapman, lawyer and prestigious private investigator, is asked to find these three women, he wonders why. Their parents' only friend, he did nothing to keep them together as children and has been haunted by remorse all his life. The investigator follows a trail that leads from chic New York to Boston slums, from elegant Parisian salons to the Appalachian hills, to the place where the three sisters face each other and one more final, devastating truth before they can move on.

Reader Reviews

Joshua Marquez

(4/5)

Nov 21, 2024

With just the turn of a kaleidoscope, your vision on life can shift, whether it be for the better or for the worse. I would recommend Danielle Steel's story; Kaleidoscope. Not only because it's full of love, tragedy, and determination showing how easy it is for life to change in an instant, but because conveys the idea that with enough persistence, you can make your way through any situation, and that's what I love about it. It's set in mid and post WWII, and centers itself around the oldest ch

Diane Wallace

Great read! a beautifully written story with love,lost and life involved (paperback!)

Lisa Tilley

(5/5)

Wow! No matter how many years go by, I will never forget this book. I would recommend it to....ANYONE!

Shilpa

This is one of my favourite books by Danielle Steele... Was actually getting bored of her writing style when I stumbled upon this one.But once I started it,I was totally engrossed into the way its story was enfolding, it being so gripping and heart wrenching at times that i could finally keep it down only once I had read the happy ending it so truly deserved.A story of three girls left to be on their own when their actor father kills his pretty wife and commits suicide himself.The eldest Hilary

Bodosika Bodosika

Danielle Steel never disappoint me.I enjoyed this and will like to read it again some day.

Joshua

(2/5)

Utter tripe. I enjoyed this, it was entertaining to blaze through on a road trip. But quite honestly, it was melodramatic, shallow, and just plain dumb. I must be growing out of my Danielle Steel phase, even so, queen of shit-lit will always have a place in my heart.

Lacy

This was my favorite Danielle Steel book. After many many DS books I finally got tired of her tedious style. But if you're into Danielle Steel, this is a must read.

Shashank K

Reading books written before the digital era took full force is really a unique experience. Finding people in todays times is so easy, they are usually just a click away unless you are reading a spy thriller where the person pursued knows how to hide. But this 1987 release novel shows us the real effort involved in finding people! The emotions in the book are agitating, challenging, exasperating and at the same time refreshing. I am in love with the way the author has built the story and the cha...

Melodyz_07

I'm not a fan of Danielle Steel. I have read a few books of hers in the past and I don't remember they left in me a memorable impression. I just read recently Kaleidoscope and I must admit that it is one of my favorite books of hers. There is something nostalgic and sad about this story. I absolutely love the plot ; a romance born in WWII (I'm a fan of stories set up in this period of time), husband kills his wife in a fit of rage and passion then commits suicide over her loss, their three daugh...

Hawi Jiffar

My first book to feel in love with , cause I was grade 5 when our teacher started telling us the story of the book but then she never finished it cause she got another job since then I couldn't stop thinking about the book till I get to college and found it I was really happy , I read it with so much interest ,love ,joy and memory of my teacher !!! This book has a great story I loved each and every part of it !! This book is the reason why I started reading more books !! I will recommend this bo...

Mitch C.

Late review.One of DS' good books.A story of three sisters separated when their parents died. They were adopted across the world and on their late 20s or early 30s, someone (a lawyer, I think) tracked them down. At first, they couldn't believe they were sisters coz' they had all different lives and no trace of the past.Poignant, riveting, heartwarming. A must re-read for me.

Debahuti

The book does an absolute justice to its title- Kaleidoscope, things change with the blink of an eye. Danielle Steele once again manages to take her readers by surprise. The book is full of unexpected twists and turns which leaves the readers breathless gasping for more...As Sam Walker returned home from war with a beautiful wife, Solange, nobody not even they themselves could have ever foreseen what life held ahead for them. They had three beautiful daughters, Hillary, Alexandria and Megan. Wit...

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