The Butterfly Room: An enchanting tale of long buried secrets from the bestselling author of The Seven Sisters series

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My earnings for the next three years will be taken by the bank,” she said. “I even had to sell my wedding dress to buy a word processor.” A multi generational tale that was sweet and romantic and while it wasn’t on the edge of your seat suspense or intrigue it was charming and readable but not one for my favorites shelf. Be warned - you will need tissues. Close to the end I found myself sobbing violently, not pretty crying with tears rolling silently down my cheeks, but the full on waterworks as I railed against the injustice of fate. But I finished with a sigh of pleasure and a smile of satisfaction. the dress—a shimmering cream 1930s vintage piece that covered the lumps and bumps that age had brought, and didn’t make her look like a ship in full sail. I stayed in the woods a very long time, until I heard Daisy calling for me. I only wished I could ask Daddy why he'd killed them when they were so beautiful, and then hung them up like trophies so he could look up and see their deadness on the walls.

Esta lectura para mi ha sido el típico caso de: “No eres tú soy yo” y es que el libro está escrito maravillosamente bien, las historias están hiladas y no se queda ningún cabo suelto. Los personajes están bien perfilados, pero… más de 500 páginas son demasiadas para lo que termina contando. In 2000 she married Stephen Riley, a businessman who owned the Denby pottery company, but her marriage coincided with a downturn in her literary fortunes after controversy over her novel Seeing Double (1999), about an investigative journalist who uncovers a secret about the Royal family, led to her losing her publishing deal.

One of two daughters of Donald and Janet Edmonds, Lucinda Edmonds was born at Drumbeg, Co Down, Northern Ireland, on February 14 1965. Her father was a textile company director and her mother a former actress. When Lucinda was five the family moved to Leicestershire for her father’s work. Partea cea mai puțin interesantă pentru mine a fost copilăria lui Posy în Admiral House și leitmotivul care dă titlul romanului, camera cu fluturi. Posy are o relație minunată cu tatăl său, pilot în război, iar pierderea sa îi va marca întreaga existență. Relația cu mama sa devine aproape inexistentă după moartea tatălui său, aceasta rezumandu-se la câteva scrisori în decursul a mulți ani. Însă prezentul lui Posy este cât se poate de interesant. Aceasta are 70 de ani, este stăpâna casei Amiral, are doi fii diferiți precum apa și uleiul, ambii cu situații complicate. This was my first Lucinda Riley Novel and the description on the blurb appealed to me. A story set the beautiful Suffolk countryside in England, Posy Montague approaching her seventieth birthday and still living in the family home of Admiral House where history and secrets abound. When a face appears from her past, Posy is reluctant to trust again. A story about family and romance set between the years 1940s and 2006. And then there is Pa Salt, the sisters’ enigmatic father, his character only seen through the eyes of his grieving daughters after he dies. Who was he? And why did he adopt his girls from all four corners of the earth..? Posy Montague is approaching her seventieth birthday. Still living in her beautiful family home, Admiral House, set in the glorious Suffolk countryside where she spent her own idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and raised her own children, Posy knows she must make an agonizing decision.

Each book focused on a different sibling and different corners of the world and the plot lines involved their collective quest to discover their true origins and to find a mysterious seventh sister – based on tantalising clues left by their father.As I travel round the world, following in the footsteps of my factual and fictional female characters to research their stories, I am constantly humbled and awed by the tenacity and courage of the generations of women who came before me. Whether fighting the sexual and racial prejudices of times gone by, losing their loved ones to the devastation of war or disease, or making a new life on the other side of the world, these women paved the way for us to have the freedom of thought and deed that we enjoy today. And so often take for granted. Lucinda Riley, actress who was inspired by illness and financial ruin to turn her hand to writing bestselling bodice-rippers – obituary Secrets are at the heart of the brand new standalone novel and sprawling family saga from international bestselling author, Lucinda Riley. The Butterfly Room is an impassioned novel, unfolding over multiple timelines, revealing a tale of war, romance, mystery and tragedy.