''One Day at a Time'' is a novel by

Danielle Steel Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an American writer, best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling author alive and the fourth-bestselling fiction author of all time, with over 800 million ...

, published by Delacorte Press in February 2009. The book is Steel's seventy-seventh novel.

Synopsis

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

List of characters

Coco Barrington

Daughter of a wealthy dramatic agent Buzz Barrington in Hollywood and a 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 who is an ex-girlfriend of Leslie

Elizabeth

Jane's gay partner

Gabriel

Florence's young boyfriend

Footnotes

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