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#TuneIntoNovember #Promises My thoughts for this prompt went immediately to The Promise-be still my teenage heart!💓I read it a bunch of times (I had the battered yellow copy in the corner) & saw the movie A LOT-renting the VHS or watching it when it played on TV. I never realized until looking for pics-that the movie came first & Steel novelized it. Such good soapy, Kleenex-needed entertainment & maybe a rite of passage in the late 70s-80s.😍😢😘

Today's author spotlight: Danielle (Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-) Steel! The 69-year-old NYC native is currently the bestselling author alive, and the 4th bestselling fiction writer of all time with 800 million copies sold in 43 languages, with 22 titles adapted for tv. She spent 381 consecutive weeks on the NYT Bestseller List, more consecutively than anyone else. She's been married 5 times and has 9 children. #AuthorPotpourri #TheMoreYouKnow

In 1981 (at the age of 15) my parents took us from sunny Qld to the UK for three years. We went on a caravan holiday to Bournemouth and I bought The Promise to read on the beach. This is me in the pink skirt and warm jumper, reading it behind the very necessary windbreaker. Over the years I collected lots more DS books but in the end I only kept this one.
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Apart from my Sweet Dreams romance novels this book was my first adult romance that I love to this day. Still have my original copy packed away 💗💗 #osrbc #romansty