The Storm Sister

Set in the icy beauty of Norway, The Storm Sister is the second book in the Seven Sisters series by international number one bestselling author Lucinda Riley.

Zusatztext The Storm Sister is like a literary musical score - crashing waves! staccato heartstopping moments and a crescendo waiting in the wings. Informationen zum Autor Lucinda Riley was born in 1965 in Ireland, and after an early career as an actress in film, theatre and television, wrote her first book aged twenty-four. Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and continue to strike an emotional chord with all cultures around the world. The Seven Sisters series specifically has become a global phenomenon, creating its own genre, and there are plans to create a seven-season TV series. Her books have been nominated for numerous awards, including the Italian Bancarella prize, The Lovely Books award in Germany, and the Romantic Novel of the Year award. In 2020 she received the Dutch Platinum award for sales over 300,000 copies for a single novel in one year an award last won by J K Rowling for Harry Potter. In collaboration with her son Harry Whittaker, she also devised a series of books for children called The Guardian Angels series, based on stories told to her children whenever they were facing a challenging situation. Harry then wrote the books, and they are now being published internationally. Though she brought up her four children mostly in Norfolk in England, in 2015 she fulfilled her dream of buying a remote farmhouse in West Cork, Ireland, which she always felt was her spiritual home, and indeed this was where her last five books were written. Lucinda was diagnosed with cancer in 2017 and died on June 11th 2021, surrounded by her family. Klappentext Ally D'Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world's most perilous yacht races, when she learns of her adoptive father's sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home on Lake Geneva, she discovers that her father - an elusive billionaire known to his daughters as Pa Salt - has left each of them a tantalising clue to their true heritage. Ally has also recently embarked on a deeply passionate love affair that will irrevocably change her destiny. But with her life now turned upside down, she decides to follow the trail that her father left her, leading her to the icy beauty of Norway. There, Ally discovers her connection to a young unknown singer, Anna Landvik, who sang in the premiere of Peer Gynt, over a hundred years before. As Ally learns more about Anna, she also begins to question who her father really was. And she starts to wonder why the seventh sister is missing . . . The Storm Sister is the second book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding the Seven Sisters series. Discover yourself at the heart of history PRAISE FOR LUCINDA RILEY 'Atmospheric, heart-rending and multi-layered' Grazia 'Delicious reading' Daily Mail 'A compelling novel on an epic scale' Sunday Express 'Addictive storytelling with a moving, emotional heart' Dinah Jefferies The second book in the Seven Sisters series by number one internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley. Zusammenfassung The second book in the Seven Sisters series by number one internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley....

Vorwort
The second book in the Seven Sisters series by number one internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley.

Autorentext

Lucinda Riley was born in 1965 in Ireland and, after an early career as an actress in film, theatre and television, wrote her first novel aged twenty-four. Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and continue to strike an emotional chord with cultures all around the world. Her Seven Sisters series has become a global phenomenon.

Her books have been nominated for numerous awards, including the Italian Bancarella Prize, the Lovely Books Award in Germany, and the Romantic Novel of the Year Award. In 2020 she received the Dutch Platinum Award for sales over 300,000 copies for a single novel in one year a prize last won by J. K. Rowling for Harry Potter.

In collaboration with her son Harry Whittaker, she also devised and wrote a series of books for children called The Guardian Angels.

Though she brought up her four children mostly in Norfolk in England, in 2015 she fulfilled her dream of buying a remote farmhouse in West Cork, Ireland, which she always felt was her spiritual home, and indeed this was where her last five books were written.

Lucinda was diagnosed with cancer in 2017 and died on 11 June 2021, surrounded by her family.

Klappentext

Ally D'Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world's most perilous yacht races, when she learns of her adoptive father's sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home on Lake Geneva, she discovers that her father - an elusive billionaire known to his daughters as Pa Salt - has left each of them a tantalising clue to their true heritage.

Ally has also recently embarked on a deeply passionate love affair that will irrevocably change her destiny. But with her life now turned upside down, she decides to follow the trail that her father left her, leading her to the icy beauty of Norway.

There, Ally discovers her connection to a young unknown singer, Anna Landvik, who sang in the premiere of Peer Gynt, over a hundred years before. As Ally learns more about Anna, she also begins to question who her father really was. And she starts to wonder why the seventh sister is missing . . .

The Storm Sister is the second book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding the Seven Sisters series.

Discover yourself at the heart of history

PRAISE FOR LUCINDA RILEY
'Atmospheric, heart-rending and multi-layered' Grazia
'Delicious reading' Daily Mail
'A compelling novel on an epic scale' Sunday Express
'Addictive storytelling with a moving, emotional heart' Dinah Jefferies

Zusammenfassung
Set in the icy beauty of Norway, The Storm Sister is the second book in the Seven Sisters series by international number one bestselling author Lucinda Riley.