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Large Print Home Library Edition from Doubleday. Hardcover. Review: 44 Charles Street (Large Print) Danielle Steel's 44 Charles Street is her most luminous novel yet. When her boyfriend wants out of their relationship-and responsibility for their house in Manhattan's West Village-Francesca, who owns an art gallery nearby, decides to take in borders. Eileen, a young teacher obsessed with dating online, is followed by Marya, a celebrated chef, and Chris, a divorced father whose 6-year-old son charms them all. At first, the group is respectful of each other's privacy. But as Marya's longtime "friendship" with another famous chef wins everyone's approval, and Francesca is drawn to Chris in his custody battle, it is Eileen's risky dating that bonds the makeshift family in ways they never imagined.