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

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Which is a complete load of crap. The reason they cannot be together simply no longer exists - if indeed it ever did.

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 – and Admiral House – has a devastating secret to reveal . . . Diagnosed with cancer four years ago, she is survived by her husband, by their son and daughter, by the son and daughter from her first marriage, and by two stepsons and a stepdaughter. Daddy?’ I asked at breakfast the next day, dipping my toast soldiers carefully into my egg. ‘It’s so hot today, can we go to the beach? We haven’t been in such a long time.’ When I first had the idea of writing a series of books based on The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades, I had no idea where it would lead me. I was very attracted to the fact that each one of the mythological sisters was, according to their legends, a unique and strong female. Some say they were the Seven Mothers who seeded our earth – there is no doubt that, in their stories, they were all highly fertile! – and had many children with the various Gods who were fascinated by their strength, beauty and ethereal air of mysticism. 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.

I think the editor/proof reader could have tweeked this a little too, to ireduce the cliches and repetition! Lucinda Riley is the writer of the wildly popular THE SEVEN SISTERS series, which I have not yet read. In retrospect, I wish I would have started there as my introduction to this author rather than this standalone. THE BUTTERFLY ROOM is a fine (longish???) novel, but I think my problem was with its characters. They did things to each other, and kept things from each other, that felt false and unrelatable. 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. The Butterfly Room, an all-new not-to-be-missed sweeping family saga from #1 International bestselling author Lucinda Riley, is available now! I went into this story completely blind - as is normal for me. I sometimes find reading the synopsis can be off putting or give away too much so I won’t spoil the book by giving too much away but I trusted in Lucinda as a talented writer and she most definitely delivered the most captivating, multi-layered and heartfelt story one could hope for.

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.” Aged 14 she was sent to train at the Italia Conti school in London and landed her first television role in BBC One’s E Nesbit adaptation, The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1982), as one of the six Bastable children, a group of young actors hailed by Sylvia Clayton in The Daily Telegraph as “excellent”.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. 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?. It has all the ingredients I expect of a family saga: a big old crumbling family home, mystery, sibling rivalry, romance, secrets, lies . . . But the biggest secret? I never could have guessed what it would be, and it left me stunned. They're dead! They're dead! They're dead! How could he have lied to me?' I shouted in between sobs. 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.

The Butterfly Room is my first book by Lucinda Riley. It definitely won't be my last. Spellbinding. ❤ 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. Lucinda Riley, actress who was inspired by illness and financial ruin to turn her hand to writing bestselling bodice-rippers – obituary THE AUTHOR: Lucinda Riley is an Irish author of popular historical fiction and a former actress. She spent the first few years of her life in the village of Drumbeg near Belfast before moving to England. At age 14 she moved to London to a specialist drama and ballet school. She wrote her first book aged twenty four. 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?’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”. Then, in early 2012, while gazing up at the Pleiades star cluster in the night sky, she got the idea for her Seven Sisters series, and in 2016 she landed a deal with a Hollywood production company for a television show based on it. The final novel in the series, The Missing Sister, was published in May this year and went straight to the top of book charts around the world. Lucinda was “a bit of a nerd” at school, more keen on history, reading and writing stories than in her ballet and acting classes. However her destiny seemed fixed: “My mother was an ex-actress, my grandmother an opera singer, and my great-uncle chief lighting designer of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The theatre was in my blood.” The Butterfly Room is a spellbinding, multigenerational story full of heartbreaking secrets, from Lucinda Riley, international bestselling author of the Seven Sisters series.

This epic saga was beautifully written with enticingly mysterious and cleverly intertwining storylines that were threaded with a few heavy secrets and shattering tragedies that this grievously wily author used to taunt and tease me while brutally dangling them rather barbarously out of my reach. I was invested and immersed in the complexities of the characters’ overlapping and oddly compelling family dynamics after being bewitched and pleasantly enthralled by Posy’s early childhood history and interactions with her beloved father. But there was something not quite right about her household and I had numerous suspicions and licentious theories, many of which were incorrect, but I wasn’t too far afield as the long-held secrets had been scandalous in their time as well as heartbreaking. This was my first experience reading this master-storyteller and where have I been, she has written thirty books already? 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.Posy Montague is approaching her seventieth birthday. Still living in her beautiful Suffolk family home, Admiral House, she is surrounded by memories of her idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and of raising her own children. But Posy knows she must make an agonizing decision.