A Mind of Her Own: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Rising above the devastation of World War I a young half-French half-American woman remains true to her own independent spirit in this powerful historical novel by bestselling author Danielle Steel. Alexandra Bouvier is born in Paris in 1900 at the dawn of a new century. From an early age she is encouraged to think for herself by her enlightened family: her father a French doctor; her mother an American nurse; and her maternal grandfather a highly regarded newspaperman back in the Midwest. At age fourteen Alex’s comfortable life is upended as war erupts across Europe. Her parents follow their sense of duty to the front performing triage at a field hospital and confronting the horrors of poison gas and trench warfare. The merciless fighting coupled with the fast-spreading Spanish flu wreaks havoc on the continent as well as on Alex’s loved ones. By the time she is eighteen she has suffered unimaginable losses.