One Day at a Time is a novel by Danielle Steel, 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