Accident (novel)

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author = Danielle Steel
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Romantic novel
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pub_date = 1994
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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"Accident" is 1994 novel by Romance novelist Danielle Steel

Plot summary

Page Clarke is a 39 year old happily married woman who lives with her 44 year old husband Brad Clarke, her 15 year old daughter Allyson and 7 year old son Andrew. One night Brad goes on an unexpected business trip to Cleveland and Allyson reports she is going to have dinner with her friend Chloe and Chloe's father Trygve Thorensen. Instead Allyson goes out with Chloe and two older boys named Jamie Applegate and Phillip Chapman. While crossing the Golden Gate Bridge the teenagers have an accident with supposed senator's wife Laura Hutchinson. Phillip is killed; Jamie survives with only a small cut; Chloe suffers leg damage, a broken pelvis and a shattered hip; and Allyson had severe head trauma. Both girls are rushed to the hospital and both Trygve and Page arrive before the surgeries. Page is unable to reach Brad until after the surgery began and Brad was outraged that she did not consult with him before the surgery. She informs him Allyson would be dead at six'o'clock if the surgery was not performed. One hour later Brad arrives at the hospital and leaves for their house before Page. After this Page confronts him why he is home early and he confesses he is cheating on her. Soon afterwards Brad starts disappearing several times and eventually Page's mother, Maribelle and sister Alexis arrive in San Francisco and don't do anything for themselves. One night after dinner, Page rages at her mother how she can pretend she didn't know how her father molested her and her sister when they were kids. Soon she forces Brad to move out and sends her mother and sister back to New York. By then she and Trygve had confessed their feelings toward each other. For four months, Allyson is in a coma and Andy is taken to see her after his runaway attempt. Soon Trygve and his children Nick, Bjorn and Chloe went to a lake for the weekend and Allyson awakens from her coma. When Page goes to the lake with them she confesses to Trygve she is pregnant with his child and they begin to plan their wedding.

Characters

;Page Clarke: She is 39 years old and is the ex-wife of Brad Clarke and mother of Allyson and Andrew Clarke.

;Trygve Thorensen:He is 42 years old and is the ex-husband of Dana Thorensen(unseen charecter) and his father to Nick, Chloe and Down syndrome stricken Bjorn.

;Brad Clarke:He is the philandering husband of Page Clarke.

;Allyson and Andrew Clarke:Are the children of Page and Brad Clarke and are siblings.