![]() This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.Īustralia : Literature Start‑class Low‑importanceĪ Long Way Home (book) is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. Books Wikipedia:WikiProject Books Template:WikiProject Books Book articles To improve this article, please refer to the relevant guideline for the type of work. To use this banner, please refer to the documentation. To participate in the project, please visit its page, where you can join the project and discuss matters related to book articles. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Books. The Kirkus Review offered a similar review, stating "Steel goes to battle with yet another worthy cause, but her good intentions this time fizzle in a sea of Åber-melodrama.This article is of interest to the following WikiProjects: Publishers Weekly gave the book an unfavorable review, remarking that "The inevitable happy ending, when it finally arrives, can't make up for a plodding narrative lacking in any real suspense." At last, after realizing that it was not her fault that her parents never loved her, she lets go of the past and moves on with her life with her new love - the doctor by her side. Gabbie then visits her stepfather and his new wife where it is learned that her mother never changed her bitter ways till the end and even went so far as to verbally abuse her new husband until she died of cancer. Her father offers no answer except that he was weak. Towards the end of the book Gabbie visits her father hoping to get some answers on why he allowed her mother to treat her so horribly. But before moving on with her life with Peter, Gabriella decides to meet her parents and ask them the long avoided question - why they abandoned her and never loved her. Gabbie is taken to a hospital, where she becomes friends with a Doctor Peter presiding over her. He then beats her up, nearly killing her. She refuses to give him any money after learning his true face and about him being responsible for the professor's death. When she learns of this, he demands she give him most of the money the old professor leaves her when he dies. He turns out to be a con artist, wanted by the police for stealing money from several people. She obliges, until the day he steals from her. ![]() He does not have a job and is constantly after Gabbie to give him money. She initially does not approve of him, but eventually falls for him. Gabbie also meets a new tenant named Steve Porter in the boarding house. ![]() Eventually she finds a job at a book store whilst buying a Christmas present to her doting friend, the old professor. Everything seems to be going well Gabbie has a job at a pastry shop, but loses it when she defends a child whose mother dislocates her arm in a fit of impatience. Ultimately she is compelled to leave the convent for the sin committed.Ĭast out into society, Gabbie is determined to move on and finds an apartment where the tenants welcome the young woman lovingly, particularly an old professor. Gabriella thus loses her love, and then their child in a miscarriage. Incidentally the priest commits suicide with a turmoil for he cannot break the promise made to the brotherhood of serving the needed, and for he cannot live without Gabriella. They want to move into the real world to live their life loving each other, but the priest is not confident about making it in the real world for Gabbie and the symbol of their love growing in Gabbie's womb. In the course of being a postulant, she falls in love with a priest, Father Joe Connors. While there, Gabriella decides she wants to become a nun. Gabbie is then gotten rid of at a nunnery to finish out her education by her mother so she can abandon the biggest disappointment in her life. She says it's only because of her badness that her parents hate her, and that is exactly why her father has left them. Her mother as always accuses Gabbie's badness for her father's departure. Before Gabbie turns thirteen her father, tired of his wife's constant abuse towards their daughter, leaves. Her father scared of annoying her mother plays a spectator to all the evil happenings. Gabriella Harrison, a child of the fifties, suffers abuse from the hands of her mother, Eloise, who explains her abuse as disciplining Gabriella for being so bad. The book was released to commercial success, despite receiving unfavorable critical reviews. The Long Road Home is a 1998 romance novel written by Danielle Steel.
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