“Winners” by Danielle Steel – No Quitting in Life

Statistically-speaking, it is safe to say that most of us will lead rather average and relatively easy lives, always being pestered by mild inconveniences and perfectly solvable problems.

However, there are also many out there to whom life gave the finger, encumbering them with greater challenges than a human can be expected to face.

Though some wilt under the pressure, many find ways of thriving and making the best of their poor situation, and that’s what Winners by Danielle Steel is all about.

To give you a brief idea of the plot, it tells the story of multiple people, each one of them facing tremendous difficulties and how they manage to overcome them, in one way or another. Amongst others there is a ski champion whose hopes are crushed to the ground by a tragic accident, a scarred breast cancer survivor, and a financial manager whose career is in ruins due to betrayal.

There are six of them in total, and from the desolate ruins which their lives have become they rise as phoenixes, refusing to let their destiny get the better of them.

If there is one word I had to use in order to describe this novel, it would be “inspiring”. Though it may very well be a work of fiction, the people described here can very well exist in the real world, and as a matter of fact it is a guarantee that thousands, if not millions, are in similar situations to these poor souls.

I believe that it clears up a great misconception people have about overcoming challenges, for most see such an act as being equivalent to solving the problem and making the situation as it was before.

However, that is not always possible; a spinal cord injury can be rather permanent, just like the passing of a loved one. Overcoming an obstacle of this magnitude is not about reversing or making it go away… it’s about restructuring, and making the best of a bad situation. The injured skier in this story doesn’t get miraculously cured… rather, she starts training to enter the Paralympics.

It feels as if on the whole, the message given by the author is that being a winner in life is not about achieving your lifelong goals, but about never quitting in the face of adversity and doing all you can with the hand you were given.

All in all, Winners is definitely a novel I can recommend to anyone feeling like they are down in the dumps; if it won’t make your problems seem smaller and less significant, it will surely give you the courage to march onwards and deal with them while holding your head up high.

The novel also has a pretty solid entertainment factor with a storyline in which many subplots intersect, meaning it will even please those who are simply looking for a bit of entertainment from a heartwarming plot.

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Danielle Steel Personal site Danielle Steel is a very well-known American novelist who, at the moment, is the bestselling author alive, and the fourth bestselling author in history, with more than 800 million copies of her books sold, and more counting. In the habit of producing several books a year, many of her projects became popular bestsellers, such as Kaleidoscope, Wanderlust and Five Days in Paris.