Die beiden Stories um England im Verlauf der Zeit sind liebevoll und aufwendig ausgearbeitet und perfekt abgestimmt. Dazu haben mir die skurrilen Nebenfiguren total gut gefallen, vor allem Orlando. Come and help me choose some sofas,” she called from the sitting room as I filled our yellowing tub with lukewarm water.

This bridge is named after Queen Victoria’s husband,” I told her out of habit. “And there’s a memorial to him in Kensington—”We walked up the spiral staircase into the room CeCe said we would share, despite there being a spare room. And I felt a shudder run through me even as I looked at the views, which were spectacular from up here. We then inspected the incredible en suite bathroom, and I knew that CeCe had done her absolute best to find something lovely that suited us both. I realized I had been seated exactly where I was now when CeCe had come into our miserable little sitting room to tell me that Pa Salt was dead.

Through the Forbes family Star finds the Edwardian romance of Flora MacNichol, a woman taken from her happy, innocent life in the remote English Lake District and thrust into the whirlwind of Edwardian London under the guardianship of the king’s mistress. For reasons she does not understand, she is introduced to the king, spends time with him and receives an expensive gift from him. She is also welcomed at society events and becomes engaged to a rich young man of the nobility—no matter that he is louche and usually drunk. Alice Keppel was clearly a remarkable woman. As a result of your research do you see her as a fundamentally positive, well meaning character, or misguided and manipulative? Do you think it was a mistake that Archie and Flora didn’t inform Teddy earlier about his true heritage?Star D’Aplièse is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her father, the elusive billionaire, Pa Salt, who adopted Star and her five sisters. After his death he left each sister a clue and a set of co-ordinates to their heritage. Star, keen to step out of the shadow of her sister, CeCe, starts her search and is lead to an antiquarian book shop in London. I watched CeCe as our food arrived and she ate hungrily, thinking that, even though we were both his daughters, his death felt like my sorrow alone, rather than ours.

No thanks.” Although CeCe only used it when we were alone, I mentally chided myself for being irritated by the pet name she had coined for me when we were little. It came from a book Pa Salt had given me for Christmas, The Story of Anastasia, about a young girl who lived in the woods in Russia and discovered she was a princess. This book takes the reader to the Lake District in England during the early twentieth century, and introduces us to Beatrix Potter and Alice Keppel, one of the King's mistresses. Star reads the journals of Flora, a young woman from that time period, as she herself figures out where she fits in society and love. Following on from the bestselling The Seven Sisters and The Storm Sister, The Shadow Sister is the third book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series, loosely based on the mythology of the Seven Sisters star cluster. A violent surfacing of adolescence (which has little in common with Tarkington's earlier, broadly comic, Seventeen) has a compulsive impact.The silent one who must find her voice – set in London and Edwardian England, featuring Royal scandals and Beatrix Potter in the beautiful Lake District. As Star learns more about Flora’s incredible journey, she too goes on a voyage of discovery, finally stepping out of her sister’s shadow and opening herself to the possibility of love.