The Seven Sisters (The Seven Sisters, 1)

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I have not read Lucinda Riley before, and to a sophisticated reader, she may seem to be the author of chiklit, besides gravitating towards monumentality - there are seven hundred pages in the first book, and about the same in each of the following. We will process the refund due to you as soon as possible and, in any case within thirty (30) days of the day we confirm via e-mail that you are entitled to a refund for defective goods. Through a dual timeline, we are transported back to 1927 where Maia’s great grandmother must choose between her head (marrying into an aristocratic family) and her heart (romance with an impoverished sculptor working on a new statue of Christ). Although the story is a fictional account of a woman who's roots leads her to the high road of Rio de Janeiro where the story again takes us eighty years back in time when the French sculptor Paul Landowski and the Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa were working on Christ the Redeemer's statue. Her decision alters her future irrevocably when Chilly, an ancient gipsy who has lived for years on the estate, tells her that not only does she possess a sixth sense, passed down from her ancestors, but it was foretold long ago that he would be the one to send her back home to Granada in Spain .

Following the death of her father, the elusive billionaire Pa Salt, she finds herself at breaking point. Although the entire book was written in English, while Atlas was staying with the Landowski's, they spoke French. They are left, however, with trust funds, the locations of their births, a letter to each from their father and a clue to their identity if they wish to follow up (which of course they will, because that's the centre most theme of this series.

Maia D’Aplièse, the eldest of the adopted children of Pa’Salt embarks on a quest to the new world to discover her origins after receiving a hint about the same from Pa’Salt in his last will and testimony. The seven sisters are gathered together for the first time, on board the Titan to say a final goodbye to the enigmatic father they loved so dearly. Ally D’Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world’s most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father’s sudden, mysterious death.

Some characters in the book are drawn straight from the pages of our world history, but the stories going in and around their lives were all fictional! He comes across as much older, the way he has got himself so involved in her story when he barely knows her, the way he seems to put himself across as so much more experienced and worldly wise and she's just a younger, naive woman who needs him to take care of her, it's all weird. RATING: This is a fun, accessible novel that is perfect for lovers of historical fiction that skews more commercial.Horribly condescending love interests - And not just the ones populating the historical segment of this story where it makes at least some sense.

Eighty years earlier, in the Belle Epoque of Rio, 1927, Izabela Bonifacio's father has aspirations for his daughter to marry into aristocracy. The beautiful recluse who must learn to love again – set in La Belle Epoque of 1920’s Rio and Paris, and present-day Lake Geneva.

There, at Paul Landowski’s studio and in the heady, vibrant cafés of Montparnasse, she meets ambitious young sculptor Laurent Brouilly, and knows at once that her life will never be the same again. An ongoing mystery runs throughout all the books – why did Pa Salt never adopt and bring home his planned seventh daughter? Applicability of cancellation rights: Legal rights of cancellation under the Distance Selling Regulations available for UK or EU consumers do not apply to certain products and services. There is a reason why the most beautiful of the sisters is in voluntary seclusion, but we will learn about it later.