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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 Ireland! and after an early career as an actress in film! theatre and television! wrote her first book aged twenty-four. Her novel Hothouse Flower (also called The Orchid House ) was selected by the UK's Richard and Judy Book Club and has been translated into thirty-four languages and sold over eight million copies worldwide. She is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author. Lucinda's novels include The Seven Sisters ! a seven-book series telling the story of adopted sisters and based allegorically on the mythology of the famous star constellation. Book one! The Seven Sisters ! and Book two! The Storm Sister ! have been No. 1 bestsellers in Europe! and the rights to a multi-season TV series have already been optioned by a Hollywood production company. The Storm Sister has been nominated for the prestigious Premio Bancarella literary prize in Italy. Lucinda is also the author of a contemporary novel The Olive Tree ! set during one long hot summer in Cyprus! and based on a family holiday. Lucinda and her son Harry have personally narrated the audiobook together. She is also rewriting and releasing a number of books originally published when writing under her maiden name of Lucinda Edmonds! including The Italian Girl and The Angel Tree. Lucinda lives with her husband and four children on the North Norfolk coast in England and West Cork! Ireland. When not writing! travelling or running around after her children! she loves reading books that she hasn't written with a glass or two of Provençal rosé! Klappentext 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. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home! she discovers that her father - an elusive billionaire affectionately 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 forever. But with her life now turned upside down! Ally decides to leave the open seas and follow the trail that her father left her! which leads her to the icy beauty of Norway. There! Ally begins to discover her roots - and how her story is inextricably bound to that of a young unknown singer! Anna Landvik! who sang in the premiere of Peer Gynt ! set to Greig's iconic music! over a hundred years before. As Ally learns more about Anna! she also begins to question who her father! Pa Salt! really was. And she starts to wonder why her seventh sister is missing . . . Following the bestselling The Seven Sisters ! this is the second book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series! based loosely on the mythology surrounding the famous star constellation. The second book in the Seven Sisters series by number one internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley Zusammenfassung 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. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home! she discovers that her father - an elusive billionaire affectionately 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 change her destiny forever. But with her life now turned upside down! Ally decides to leave the open seas and follow the trail that her father left her! which leads her to the icy beauty of...
