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    The Butterfly Room
    The Butterfly Room
    The Butterfly Room
    Audiobook17 hours

    The Butterfly Room

    Written by Lucinda Riley

    Narrated by Nicolette McKenzie

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Full of her trademark mix of unforgettable characters and heart-breaking secrets, The Butterfly Room is the new spellbinding, multi-generational story from Sunday Times bestseller Lucinda Riley.

    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 agonising decision. The house is crumbling around her, and Posy knows the time has come to sell it. 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 Sam's inept business dealings, and the sudden reappearance of her younger son Nick, Posy is reluctant to trust in Freddie's renewed affection. And unbeknown to Posy, Freddie - and Admiral House - have a devastating secret to reveal…

    Praise for the Author: “Masterful storytelling and imaginative power are the trademarks of Riley's novels.” LANCASHIRE EVENING POST
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateMay 3, 2019
    ISBN9781528865067
    The Butterfly Room
    Author

    Lucinda Riley

    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.

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    • 4/5
      The story is entertaining enough but I wouldn't have guessed it had been written by Lucinda Riley. I felt there were a few inconsistencies in the plot, the various story threads seemed poorly connected at times. I also feel there should be a trigger warning as one of the story lines contains descriptions of domestic violence, although not a large part of the book. Not to be compared with The Seven Sisters, but definitely worth reading/listening.

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    • 5/5
      I loved every minute of this wonderful audio book!!! Lucinda's writing makes you feel part of the story!
    • 5/5
      A must read! Excellent! Thoroughly enjoyed the reading and the story.
    • 2/5
      This was a bit hard work... nothing like the Seven Sisters series. I didn't much care for the narrator, her voice was fine for Posie but felt very unnatural for the younger characters.
    • 3/5
      Way too long. Overwrought and overly dramatic. Cliche happy endings. However, I did read it all!
    • 5/5
      Brought tears to my eyes, always a sign of a great book!