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The shadow sister : Star's story
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- ISBN: 9781476759951
- ISBN: 1476759952
- ISBN: 9781476759944
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1 online resource - Edition: First Atria books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2016
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| Subject: | Fathers -- Death -- Fiction Adopted children -- Fiction Sisters -- Fiction Adopted children Fathers -- Death Sisters |
| Genre: | Romance fiction. Domestic fiction. Electronic books. Fiction. Romance fiction. Domestic fiction. |
Electronic resources
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2017 March #2
The D'Apliese sisters were adopted as infants from far-flung corners of the world, too young to remember anything of their individual histories. After the D'Apliese patriarch passes away, each sister receives a handwritten letter and a set of coordinates that indicate where each baby was adopted. The third book in Lucinda Riley's Seven Sisters series dives into the history of Star D'Apliese, the most bookish and secretive of the sisters. Star grew up in the shadow of her outgoing and gregarious sister CeCe, but her father's letter inspires her to start forging her own path. After landing a job at a dusty London bookshop, she befriends the proprietor, Orlando Forbes. Recognizing a fellow lover of literature, Orlando introduces Star to the diaries of Flora MacNichol, a shy woman suddenly thrust into the spotlight of Edwardian high society. Riley jumps between the lives of Star and Flora, weaving the narratives together as both women learn how full their lives feel when they begin to let others into their orbit. Set in the bucolic English countryside, this will appeal to fans of Kristin Hannah, Kate Morton, and Riley's earlier novels. Copyright 2017 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2017 February #2
Third in Riley's Seven Sisters series (The Storm Sister, 2016, etc.) about adopted daughters in search of their ancestry.Star, real name Asterope after one of the "seven sisters" of the Pleiades star cluster, has, upon the recent death of her adoptive father, a wealthy Swiss seafarer, returned to her childhood chateau on Lake Geneva to retrieve his legacy to her: a figurine of a black panther, the address of a bookshop in London, and a name, Flora MacNichol. Star has given up dreams of academe to stay close to sister CeCe in Londonâso symbiotic is their relationship that Star has always been known as CeCe's shadow. Star visits the bookshop, whose eccentric proprietor, Orlando Forbes, comes from impoverished nobility. When she learns that Flora, her presumed ancestor, may be related to Orlando, she accompanies him to the family seat, High Weald, in Kent, where she meets Orlando's truculent brother Mouse, their cousin Marguerite Vaughan, and her young son Rory, heir to th e estate. Star is immediately drawn to the crumbling hall and the surrounding flora and fauna. She consults journals she finds in the mansion and learns that in 1909, Flora gave up her true love, Archie, Lord Vaughan, to her younger sister Aurelia. For reasons not immediately revealed, Aurelia is the repository of her landed but cash-poor family's hopes and limited resources, while Flora is treated like a stepchild despite her beauty and talent. (Flora is an animal lover and budding naturalist who will later become a protégé of Beatrix Potter.) After her parents sell their beloved country home to fund Aurelia's dowry, Flora is sent to live with Mrs. Keppel, a society grand dame rumored to be King Edward's mistress. With Mrs. Keppel's help, Flora seems slated for an advantageous but loveless match to a drunken earl. The frame story structure serves this installment wellâthe past and present narratives are equally engaging. The storytelling is leisurely, almost to excess, then suddenly the stakes heighten as the Forbes-Vaughan connection is illuminated and Star discovers her true heritage and destiny. Another pleasant jaunt down a genealogical rabbit hole. Copyright Kirkus 2017 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2016 December #1
In the New York Times best-selling "Seven Sisters" series, each of the adopted D'Aplièse sisters follow up clues to her special origins. Here, Star D'Aplièse learns the story of Flora MacNichol, a young woman from the Lake District who ends up at the London home of a flamboyant Edwardian hostess.. Copyright 2016 Library Journal. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2017 January #1
The third book in Riley's "Seven Sisters" series (after
Copyright 2017 Library Journal.The Storm Sister ) is the story of Star, the shyest and more dependable of the sisters. All seven had been adopted from the four corners of the world by a millionaire, who left them clues to the identity of their real families upon his death. As Star slowly breaks out of her shell and decides to find her family, she discovers a possible link to a strong and willful woman named Flora MacNichol who lived in Edwardian England a century before. Inspired by Flora's example, Star finally steps out of the shadows to find herself and her own destiny. Riley's engaging and mesmerizing story of self-discovery and love, while making the complex tale of the Seven Sisters sufficiently clear, can be perfectly read as a stand-alone.VERDICT This book will appeal to readers of Edwardian novels and Jane Austen-style fiction. Fans of this series will undoubtedly be pleased with this latest installment in the "Seven Sisters" saga. [See Prepub Alert, 10/31/16.]âAdriana Delgado, Palm Beach Cty. Lib., Loxahatchee, FL
