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

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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. My Review: 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. But what about our beach hut?’ I asked Daddy. I loved our little hut – it was painted a butter yellow, and stood at the very end of the row so if you looked the right way, you could pretend that you were the only people on the beach for miles, but if you turned the other way, you weren’t too far from the nice ice cream man by the pier. Daddy and I always made the most elaborate sandcastles, with turrets and moats, big enough for all the little crabs to live in if they decided to come close enough. Maman never wanted to come to the beach; she said it was ‘too sandy’, which I thought was rather like saying the ocean was too wet. En el pasado vamos conociendo la historia de Admiral House a la vez que conocemos a la familia de Posy y a ella misma. Aparte de esta que es la trama principal, se intercalan en el presente varias historias paralelas con los dos hijos de Posy.

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. To her amazement her first novel, Lovers and Players (1992), following the loves and show business lives of three girls, old university friends, won her a three-book contract from Simon and Schuster, launching her writing career. DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Blue Box Press, Author Buzz via Netgalley for providing a digital ARC of The Butterfly Room by Lucinda Riley for review. As I took a step closer, I was confused, because I wondered how the butterflies could stay so still, and what they had found to eat inside their little glass prison.

My thoughts:It’s no secret that I am a huge Lucinda Riley fan. I’ve read almost all her books to date, and those that I haven’t I plan to soon. I always find myself completely engaged in her stories, falling in love with her characters and swept up in their lives and this one was no different.

She recalled her father, who travelled abroad a lot and would return from exotic locations bearing gifts, as a rather mysterious figure “just like Pa Salt in The Seven Sisters stories”. Described by one reviewer as “a magical storyteller who creates characters we fall in love with and who stay with us long after we finish reading”, Lucinda Riley was best known for her “Seven Sisters” series of novels, following the lives and loves of six D’Apliese siblings (an anagram of Pleiades, the Greek myth said to have inspired the books), adoptive daughters the late “Pa Salt”, an elusive billionaire. The Butterfly Room is a spellbinding, multigenerational story full of heartbreaking secrets, from Lucinda Riley, international bestselling author of the Seven Sisters series. I’m sure that like me, there will be one sister in particular you will most identify with, and a sister you like the least. However, the beauty of writing about the girls is that each of them have their own unique strengths and weaknesses. Just as we all do. Maman was smoking now too, and I sometimes worried that she would set her letters on fire because she held them so close to her face when she was reading.Well, I couldn't ask, because he wasn't here, but I had to trust and believe there was a very good reason for the murders in our butterfly kingdom. 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.

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. I think readers who enjoy romance novels with old houses and family dramas might well enjoy this one. I honestly didn’t connect with the characters and the story felt a little twee. There wasn’t enough drama or suspense here to keep me interested. Having said that I am not a fan of romance novels and this in my opinion was more romance than Historical fiction and therefore not really my thing. And I wanted to celebrate the achievements of women, especially in the past, where so often, their contribution to making our world the place it is today has been overshadowed by the more frequently documented achievements of men. I did like most of the characters (ones you were supposed to like) but the love scenes were cringey and the men seemed sleazy or desparate. I always had an incredibly vivid imagination and, when I was acting, I always wanted to change the plot of whatever I was working on,” she recalled. “I started writing in bed to try and take my mind off how I was feeling.”My darling, I’m afraid the beach isn’t suitable for playing at the moment. It’s covered in barbed wire and mines. Do you remember when I explained to you about what happened in Southwold last month?’ I think the editor/proof reader could have tweeked this a little too, to ireduce the cliches and repetition! 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.

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