Beauchamp Hall

In Danielle Steel's Beauchamp Hall, this contemporary romance is enchanted and legendary like a fairy tale. For Winona "Winnie" Farrington, she had once of dreams of being published in New York. But life had gotten in her way when she took of her mother. After she died, she had been stuck in a dead-end job for 11 years in Beecher, Michigan, and having a stale relationship with her boyfriend Rob that never went anyway. When she received the white elephant gift of a set of DVDs from "Beauchamp Hall", a British series like PBS's hit "Downtown Abbey", from her best friend Barb, it changed and transformed her life and became addicted to it ever since. But things changed for her, when she was passed over for a promotion in her job and she caught Rob and Barb in her bed. On a whim after she nursed a double heartbreak and betrayal, she travels to England to visit the show and made new friends along the way. She also worked behind the scenes as an assistant and fell in love with Nigel, a sound tech who was once a dream. But when he was drunk and got jealous, he was a nightmare as the romance fizzles out to a crescendo. Behind the camera, life wasn't what it cracked up to be when they dealt with a loss of a star and then scandals that disrupted the show. When the producers couldn't fix the storyline issues, they decided to cancel the show, while it had put the Haversham Castle in jeopardy where Lady Beatrice and her brother Freddie lived. They made money from the show. But to prevent them from going into a despair, Winnie dreamed of an idea to help save it after the show ended. And with Bea and Freddie's consent, it transformed her world forever as she moved forward and had found her own dream come with a surprise romance for a happy ending.

It had been a long time since I read anything from Danielle Steel. And I did like the storyline concept and how it might've been inspired by"Downtown Abbey". I did find it to be quite fair and perfectly likable, but not like her own classic romance novels.  I did care for Winnie and how she had been dealt with one blow after another and took a chance to follow her heart and dreams in England. She wanted to go places and be adventurous and not be stuck in the same rut year after year.  I did like Nigel and how he was ideally like a prince until he let jealousy had gotten to the best of him. I did like the Beecher MI and England for the dual locations and the mesmerizing settings even of Beauchamp Hall too. This would make you want to wish upon a star and take you on a magical ride with non-stop drama, plenty of suspense, sparks of romance, and a hint of action.



Will you be tuned into Beauchamp Hall today?