A Gift of Hope: Helping the Homeless
Written by Danielle Steel
Narrated by Angela Dawe
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In her powerful memoir His Bright Light, #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel opened her heart to share the devastating story of the loss of her beloved son. In A Gift of Hope, she shows us how she transformed that pain into a campaign of service that enriched her life beyond what she could imagine.
For eleven years, Danielle Steel took to the streets with a small team to help the homeless of San Francisco. She worked anonymously, visiting the "cribs" of the city's most vulnerable citizens under cover of darkness, distributing food, clothing, bedding, tools, and toiletries. She sought no publicity for her efforts and remained anonymous throughout. Now she is speaking up to bring attention to their plight.
In this unflinchingly honest and deeply moving memoir, the famously private author talks publicly for the first time about her work among the most desperate members of our society. She offers achingly acute portraits of the people she met along the way-and issues a heartfelt call for more effective action to aid this vast, deprived population. Determined to supply the homeless with the basic necessities to keep them alive, she ends up giving them something far more powerful: a voice.
By turns candid and inspirational, Danielle Steel's A Gift of Hope is a true act of advocacy and love.
Danielle Steel
Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world's most popular authors, with over 650 million copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include Property of a Noblewoman, Blue, Precious Gifts, Undercover, Country, Prodigal Son, Pegasus, A Perfect Life, and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina's life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless; and the children's books Pretty Minnie in Paris and Pretty Minnie in Hollywood.
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Reviews for A Gift of Hope
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I don't read Danielle Steel's usual genre, but in this book she recounts her 11 years of working with the homeless population in San Francisco. She and a team of helpers handed out hundreds of sleeping bags, coats, hats, gloves, boots, and gloves, several nights a month during cold weather. She gives little detail about the people they found living on the streets, but does tell about some of the difficulties encountered.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I enjoyed reading about Danielle and her YO! Angels! group giving to the homeless for over 11 years.
I knew that Nick's death was hard on her and the rest of her family but this showed a little something good that came out of it and we know that there was more good that came out. Nick continues to touch lives.