One Day at a Time (novel)


One Day at a Time is a novel by Danielle Steel, published by Delacorte Press in February 2009. It is Steel's seventy-seventh novel.

Synopsis

Coco Barrington, the wayward member of a family of Hollywood celebrities, agrees to dog-sit at her successful sister's house. There, she meets Leslie Baxter, a British actor hiding from a vindictive ex with his six-year-old girl. Coco finds love and also reconciliation with the rest of her family, healing old wounds one day at a time.

List of characters

  • Coco Barrington: daughter of wealthy dramatic agent Buzz Barrington in Hollywood and best-selling romance novelist mother Florence Flowers
  • Jane Barrington: elder sister of Coco, a successful movie producer
  • Leslie Baxter: world-famous British movie star who happens to stay at Jane's house while Coco house-sits during her sister's absence
  • Ian White: ex-lover of Coco who died and left his Australian shepherd, Sallie
  • Florence Flowers: Coco's mother, a successful novelist
  • Chloe: daughter of Leslie, living with her mother Monica, an ex-girlfriend of Leslie
  • Elizabeth: Jane's gay partner
  • Gabriel: Florence's young boyfriend