''Crossings'' is a 1982
bonkbuster ''Bonkbuster'' (a play on "blockbuster" and the verb " to bonk") is a term coined in 1989 by British writer Sue Limb to describe a subgenre of commercial romance novels in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as their subsequent miniseries adaptations. T ...
novel that was written by American
Danielle Steel. It is Steel's
13th novel. It was adapted into a six-part miniseries of the same name in 1986.
Plot
The ship ''
Normandie'' makes a voyage from Washington, D.C. to France despite an impending war. Aboard the ship is American Liane de Villiers, the young wife of an old ambassador to France.
List of characters
*Liane Crockett de Villiers – A daughter of a world shipping enterprise, Crockett Shippings, who marries Armand after his wife's death
*Armand de Villiers – Ambassador of France to the US, having returned to France, who works for the
Vichy Regime
Vichy France (french: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was the fascist French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. Officially independent, but with half of its ter ...
of
German-occupied France
The Military Administration in France (german: Militärverwaltung in Frankreich; french: Occupation de la France par l'Allemagne) was an interim occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II to administer the occupied zo ...
*Odile de Villiers – Wife of Armand who dies early
*Nicholas Burnham – President of an enterprise in steel business, Burnham Steel, who first meets Liane during crossing the Atlantic
*Hillary Burnham – Unfaithful wife of Nick who refuses to divorce him
*Johnny Burnham – Only son of Nicholas and Hillary
References
1982 American novels
American romance novels
Novels by Danielle Steel
American novels adapted into television shows
Delacorte Press books
Bonkbuster romance novels
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