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

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It smelt of polish, and light illuminated the circular walls that surrounded the windows Daisy had just cleaned. On the wall directly in front of me hung what must be an entire extended family of Red Admiral butterflies. They were lined up in rows of four behind glass enclosed by a gilt frame. 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. 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. 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. 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.

Aparte de esto os cuento un poco lo que vais a encontrar. Es un libro narrado en dos tiempos, el primero nos muestra a una protagonista (Posy) desde su infancia hasta su juventud y el segundo en una Posy de 70 años. Los bloques de historia se van alternando de modo que vamos conociendo cosas del pasado que nos hacen ir entendiendo lo que pasa en la actualidad. 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.” She decided to devote herself to her children and her new husband, with whom she had two more children, and for the next 10 or so years she concentrated on being a wife and mother. En el presente Posy se enfrenta a la difícil decisión de si vender la propiedad de su casa familiar “Admiral house” ya que al ser una mansión con un gran terreno requiere mucho mantenimiento y ella no cuenta con el dinero necesario ni con la fortaleza física para acometer las tareas necesarias. Asimismo durante este periodo Posy se reencuentra con un antiguo amor que acabó bruscamente y sin que ella llegara a conocer el motivo. ¿Podrá a sus 70 años volver a sentir las mariposas en el estómago? ¿Sabrá finalmente por qué se quebró su historia de amor?.Then a face appears from the past – Freddie, her first love, who abandoned her and left her heartbroken fifty years ago. Already struggling to cope with her son’s inept business dealings, and the sudden reappearance of her younger son after ten years in Australia, Posy is reluctant to trust in Freddie’s renewed affection. And, unbeknown to Posy, Freddie has a devastating secret to reveal . . .

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. 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. 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.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. 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.

Her third novel, Enchanted (1994), was a weepie about a gifted ballerina triumphing despite the cruel rivalry of her step-sister. The Butterfly Room is a spellbinding, multigenerational story full of heartbreaking secrets, from Lucinda Riley, international bestselling author of the Seven Sisters series. 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. Full of her trademark mix of unforgettable characters and heart-breaking secrets, The Butterfly Room is a spellbinding, multi-generational story from Lucinda Riley, bestselling author of the Seven Sisters series. I meandered through the first half of this book, content to dip in and out of it between other reads, but once I hit the halfway point I devoured the second half in one sitting, totally engrossed, unable to put it down.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. Lucinda Riley is the queen of historical based family sagas. The Butterfly Room is a solid example of her ability to weave a complex family mystery around themes of war, secrets, lost love and emotion.

I love multi-generational sagas. They are such a great break from all the thrillers I love reading and this one came at the perfect time. I was able to lose myself in Posy’s world and what a story it was. Starting when she was young and then jumping to when she is almost 70, I immediately found myself engrossed in this story. Posy has not had the most happy of childhoods and even later in life, she has encountered a few obstacles. Now she is nearing the end of her life and trying to decide whether she should scale down.

She penned her first novel aged 23 and went on to publish more than 20 books which were translated into nearly 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies around the world.