Jewels

Year: 1000

Runtime: 228 mins

Language: English

Director: Roger Young

Drama

Sarah Thompson, an American visiting England, marries William Whitfield, the Duke of Whitfield. They settle in a French chateau, start a family, but World War II shatters their happiness. After the war they aid survivors by purchasing their jewelry, launch a successful jewelry shop, and confront generational and external conflicts that threaten both the store and the family.

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Sarah Whitfield's Marriage to an English Duke, Survival in Occupied France, and Postwar Jewelry House Bind Five Decades of Family Love to Inheritance, Loss, and Reinvention · by Danielle Steel

Why this book?

The NBC miniseries follows Sarah's failed first marriage, romance with William Whitfield, French château, separation during World War II, survival under occupation, postwar jewelry business, and the adult conflicts of their children. Its multi-part length preserves the novel's family-saga scale better than a single feature could, although it condenses five decades, combines transitions, and makes the Whitfield enterprise and romances more visually immediate than Sarah's retrospective narration.

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