Irresistible Forces

Written by:
Danielle Steel
Narrated by:
Kyf Brewer

Abridged Audiobook

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Book
23
Narrator
6
Release Date
July 2000
Duration
5 hours 29 minutes
Summary
Danielle Steel's forty-seventh bestselling novel is very much about the tides of our times, changes and responsibilities in the workplace pull two people in different directions, sweeping them into new lives and changed worlds

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Irresistible Forces

For fourteen years, Steve and Meredith Whitman have sustained a marriage of passion and friendship - despite the demands of two all-consuming careers.  Meredith, an investment banker, has achieved partnership in one of Wall Street's top firms.  Steve A gifted physician, chose an urban trauma ward over the big money he could have earned elsewhere.  The only thing missing in their lives is children.  Steve longs for them.  But Meredith keeps putting off motherhood, saying she isn't ready and doesn't have time.  Not yet.  Especially now that she has been offered an extraordinary opportunity, a chance to reach for the brass ring - in San Francisco, three thousand miles away.  Meredith is thrilled and surprised when Steve urges her to accept a top position at an exciting young high-tech company.  Traditionally, men's careers forces families to move to new cities, compelling their wives to abandon friends, home, and lives to follow.  But Steve is more than willing to uproot himself. Saying he'll join her as he can find a new job himself, they can begin their family at last.

Neither Steve nor Meredith had reckoned on the frustrations of a bi-coastal marriage, as Steve's job keeps him in New York for months longer than planned.  Weekends together, their lifeline, fall prey to their hectic schedules.  Alone in San Francisco, Meredith is spending long hours at the office with her boss, charismatic entrepreneur Callan Dow.  Steve working late shifts at the hospital, grabbing an occasional dinner with a new colleague, a doctor raising a daughter on her own.  Almost unnoticed, Steve and Meredith have begun living separate lives in increasingly separate worlds.  And despite the best of intentions, irresistible forces begin to tear their lives and hearts apart.

With unerring insight, Danielle Steel explores what happens when lives that fit together like delicately balanced puzzles are shifted, changed, and drift apart.  Only time can tell who and what they will become as life sweeps them onward and deposits them on new, sometimes frightening, and often exciting shores.  Who survives, is at the core of Irresistible Forces.
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Anonymous

Always love the passion Steele brings to her novels. “Irresistible Forces” was definitely one of her better novels in my opinion. My jaw dropped at certain moments even with Steeles similar plots throughout her work. Fantastic read.

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Angela Jones

I loved this book. I could not figure out who I was rooting for. I liked all the characters and did not want to see any of them hurt. But in true Danielle Steel fashion there is a happy ending that suits all.

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Angela Jones

I loved this book. I could not figure out who I was rooting for. I liked all the characters and did not want to see any of them hurt. But in true Danielle Steel fashion there is a happy ending that suits all.

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Anonymous

It was ok. Nothing special and a bit long and drawn out.

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Anonymous

I know that a lot of Danielle Steele's books are a lot a like, but this was long drawn out and took forever to wrap up. I saw what was happening when i started and didn't enjoy the journey.

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Daparoye

I was a bit disappointed with this book. It trudged along. Very sluggish. And, quite frankly, I didn't care for the plot or the unlikable, selfish main characters. I can't recommend this book to anyone.

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Anonymous

I love Danille Steele, but I have to say that this book was awful. It just drudged along with not a lot of plot. I would not recommend this book to anyone.

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