Fortune's Daughter: The spellbinding summer 2021 book from the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller (The Rockwood Chronicles, Book 1)

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Left on the steps of an orphanage when she was just days old, Nancy Sunday was brought up in hardship – until the kindly Rosalind Carey took her in. I live in the south where there actually is a hurricane season, but have always been told by relatives in California that earthquakes can occur at any time of the year and at any time of the day or night, under all weather conditions, sunny, wet, hot, or cold--without special tendency. For those just beginning to read Hoffman, I'd start with something a bit more polished, such as The Probable Future, The Blackbird House, or, my favorite, Practical Magic.

What I like about Dilly Court is that she gets on with the story immediately and you get involved quickly and I was hooked all the way through right to the end. Then comes the arrival of a distant cousin Piers Blanchard who says he is the rightful heir to Rockwood. With Sir Luicien having memory problems Rosalind and her family have nowhere to turn to know if Piers is in fact telling the truth. The story ends a little too soon, and not all is resolved, though the book definitely leaves a deep impression of the characters' lives.I have long been an Alice Hoffman fan, but with such a prolific catalog from which to choose, I had always read primarily from her more recent work.

There are so many twists and turns along the way this book will keep you gripped from start to finish.But because of Lila's visions, the book has an "Earth Mother" aspect that takes it beyond merely being a tale of two single women a generation apart who had kids without husbands. THE writing is confident, powerful and essentially laconic, but it is also lush; description is limited but rich, vivid and sharp. After the sudden death of her husband, Patricia Greystone is left with nothing, and at twenty-four, she finds herself a penniless widow. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.