title: One Day at a Time (novel)
text: # One Day at a Time (novel)
  
  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
  
  ### Elizabeth
  
  Jane's gay partner
  
  ### Gabriel
  
  Florence's young boyfriend
  
  ## Footnotes
  
  http://www.randomhouse.com/features/steel/bookshelf/display.pperl?isbn=9780385340298
  
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