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A Perfect Stranger

by Danielle Steelliterary work· published 1982

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A Perfect Stranger is a romance novel by American author Danielle Steel published in 1982. It is Steel's fourteenth novel. This book tells the story of Alexander Hale and Raphaella Phillips. Hale, a recently divorced man, takes a walk down his street, when he sees Phillips, a beautiful woman, crying on the steps. We later learn that the woman's name is Raphaella Phillips and that she is married to an eighty-year-old man who is very sick. Hale falls in love with Phillips, who is already married. Raphaella is young, while her husband is old and bedridden. Raphaella does not want to leave her husband but she does not want to stay closed away from the world with nothing to live for either. She has no children and feels like the house doesn't belong to her.

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A Perfect Stranger was adapted into a 1994 film.

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    Danielle Steel's A Perfect Stranger
    1994 · film · 105 min · dir. Michael Miller · IMDb ↗
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    A television movie based on "A Perfect Stranger," Danielle Steel's novel about an attorney who falls in love with the young wife of a wealthy man who is dying.