Mmmmm. This was pretty good. I liked the two main characters. I enjoyed the writing. And the gentle love story touched my heart.

William, a British writer living on the idyllic California coast, found the love of his life, Maddie, a professional photographer, at 59. They met when Maddie took an unheard three week holiday amid that American work life when Americans get so few holidays and yet they feel guilty even taking those!

As Maddie found, new faces enter your life.

But not enough happened? Can't say exactly why it didn't appeal to me. While I nearly finished it, it wasn't a book I'd recommend. ( )

5 star. Good book. Enjoyed it. Photographer lives in a refurbished firehouse. She has grown children and decided to take a trip to see what her life might have been if she had married 3 of her previous boyfriends. I won’t spoil the story. ( )

I fell in love with Maddie's story in Lost And Found by Danielle Steel. What I didn't like was the verbal attack her oldest daughter, Deanna did on her mother. No wonder the mother decided to get away and take a road trip across the United States stopping to check up on old boyfriends. Kudos to her to go away and when she wanted to stop and enjoy the country. I'm sure being an amazing, well-known photographer helped on her decision. She also stopped to see her other two children and finding out more about their lives, which also helped her on rethinking about her life. The people she met along the way also intrigued me in reading this very emotional book. Thank you Danielle Steel for an amazing read! ( )

Lost and Found by Danielle Steel
What I like right from the start is the lead character is into photography.
Madison has raised her 3 kids and then bought the old firehouse to live in.
She's competitive with fashion and design...her children are all different: one likes fashion, one design, one business.
She hoped to get the kids and their kids to spend time around the Christmas holidays but the firehouse stairs and pole were not the right places for young child.
Other children grew up and do very well in their jobs and in their kids. They are too wrapped up in their lives to even call the other siblings or their mother.
Kinda sad, her life and she makes a choice while cleaning out a closet and seeing letters from the men who loved her and after breaking her ankle she'd go visit each of them.
She knows after visiting the first two that she had made the right choice and followed her dreams by letting them go.
Third man who bought land and created his own ranch in WY was the one she was too late for.
She decided then to just go visit the kids in CA. Love the travel and wish there were more time she had spent there describing it all.
Ben her son the one who spent more time reaching out to her wants her to come visit. His wife is too busy for a visit and he puts his foot down that he will spend time with her.
She heads to Big Sur to relax and meets a man from England and they take a liking to one another.
Love the time she gets to spend with her kids before heading back to NY for work. It's a wonder a severe world wide catastrophe brings them back to one another..
Some sex scenes but love the locations.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device). ( )

Not one of Steel's better efforts. All the characters felt overdrawn, and then everyone changed too much to create the happy ending. ( )