Thus, the situation pushing Tracy to dive in right behind the child to save it from drowning although she herself didn’t know how to swim and risking her own life in order to save the child. Tracy ends up getting released long before her actual term on showing good conduct and compassion towards the warden’s child which accidentally slips off in the lake. This hits the reader with full force resulting in him involuntarily sides with Tracy, justifying her deleterious actions which take place consequence of her release from jail.

The events of her imprisonment is painted with such realistic shades of the irony of life, that the reader feels transported right at the scene where all the brutality of imprisonment is taking place. She is about to get married into richness and bounty when sudden events unfold in her life, within a matter of a few hours at such a fast and uncompromising pace, that she finds herself brutally trapped in a Mafia scheme and ends up in prison.įrom then onwards, the novel moves on, never leaving the hold of the reader, playing with his emotional quotient, and explain unbearable circumstances which give birth and shapes the entirely new personality of Tracy Whitney, emerging as a being full of hatred and vengeance. The plot of the novel revolves around a woman, Tracy Whitney, bewitchingly beautiful, highly intelligent, and successful both in her career and life. In fact, it leaves one craving for more of Tracy Whitney, even at the end of the novel albeit being utterly satisfying with the end results of the story.

Her character in the novel feeds all the pre-requisites of the reader. Coming from Sheldon’s imaginary world, the novel is centered on a woman, portraying her as the hero, rather than the conventional heroine of the story. The novel was published in 1985, an era when the word “feminism” had not caught its roots even in western culture. This novel is penned down in such a beautiful way that the flow of the storyline is both mind-boggling and mesmerizing. “ If Tomorrow Comes”, I assert as a forbidden jewel, a masterpiece from the mastermind, Sidney Sheldon.

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