THE SYNOPSIS OF THE NOVEL

In this chapter I would like to give the synopsis of the novel Heartbeat by Danielle Steel.

Fundamentally, Steel’s Heartbeat tells us about the divorce between the main character and his wife and also the divorce between the secondary character called Adrian and her husband. Adrian wants maintain her pregnancy but her husband did not want to have a child. In this novel is also narrated the struggle of life of the main character is Bill Thigpen. He had been married, living in Soho in New York and starving. His wife Leslie had been a dancer in Broadway shows, and at the time she was out of work too, because she was pregnant with her first baby.

In this novel was narrated that Bill Thigpen is a producer of the most successful daytime soap on American TV, from this he had reached the top of his carrier. The name of the program is A Life Worth Living it was Bill Thigpen’s baby. He had started it as a way to survive when he had starving in New York years before as a young playwright. He had started playing with the concept and then with the first script during a time when he was between plays in New York. He had started out writing plays on off-off Broadway, and in those days he had been a purist, the theatre all above. His first baby, Adam and the show had been born at almost the same time, one a strapping nine-pound baby boy with his father’s big blue eyes and a mist of golden curls, the other the a tryout on the summer schedule that brought the rating through the roof and an instant outcry when the show disappeared again in September. Within two month, a life worth living was back and Bill Thigpen was on his way as the creator of the most successful daytime television soap. The important choices come later. And his second son, Tommy, was born two years later, A life worth Living had won two critics’ award and an Emmy. It was after the show’s first Emmy that the network suggested they move the show to California. It made more sense creatively, production arrangement would be easier out there, and they left that the show ‘belonged’ in California. To Bill, it was good news, but to Leslie, his wife it wasn’t. She was going back to work, she doesn’t agree move to California, she had gone back to classes in her original discipline, and now she wanted to teach ballet at Julliard. Bill Thigpen not understand why his wife refused moved to California, but one thing he know that there was another teacher at Juilliard whom she was ‘very fond of’, that is one reason why she doesn’t want move to California with him. Finally they separated. Bill Thigpen goes to California alone, and his children stay in New York with his wife. Bill Thigpen felt so sad when he will leave his wife with his children; tears filled his eyes and ran slowly down his cheeks as the plane soared slowly over New York to California.

Narrated when he has arrived in California, Bill threw himself into the show with a vengeance. He worked day and night, and some time even slept on the couch in his office, as the ratings continued to soar, and the show won innumerable daytime Emmys. And in the seven years he’d been in California, Bill Thigpen had become only slightly less manic. A Live Worth Living had become his pride and joy, his daily companion, his best friend, his baby. He had no reason to fight it anymore; he let his work become his daily passion. His children Tommy and Adam came out to visit him on alternate holidays and for a month in the summer, and he loved them more than ever. But being three thousand miles away from them when he really wanted to see them every day remained extremely painful.

Next narrated in this novel that Bill Thigpen meets a girl called Adrian in Safeway, actually Adrian is a woman which has a husband already. Her husband is Steven Thomson he worked in an advertisement bureau. Before marry Adrian, Steven has been told to Adrian that he doesn’t want to have a child because he thought that children as a threat for their life and their carrier in the future. Almost three years they had married, suddenly Adrian be pregnant and it make Steven angry and assume that Adrian have sold the pass what become their agreement before married, that is in order not to have child even he suggest Adrian to abort her pregnancy but Adrian keep her desire to maintain her pregnant because Adrian do not want to abort her pregnancy, finally Steven leave her. After leaved by Steven, Adrian running her life by herself and met Bill Thigpen, because they meet each other many time, finally they fall in love. Adrian told Bill that her husband leave her but counseled about her pregnancy to Bill and when Bill asked Adrian make a trip to the north together with his boys Adam and Tommy. But when they were in lake Tahoe, Adrian and Tommy got an accident when they were swam in a river. Adrian and Tommy took to the hospital, and at that time finally Bill knows about AdrianAdrian, at the first Bill very surprise about that, but he can expect all about that because he love Adrian very much and love everything about Adrian. The story ended with a happy ending, Adrian and Bill Thigpen finally together. pregnancy. He told by the doctor who cared to