The Storm Sister (The Seven Sisters, 2)

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And then there is Pa Salt, the sisters’ enigmatic father, his character only seen through the eyes of his grieving daughters after he dies. Across continents, generations and history, The Storm Sister is a true box of delights, exploring the impact of real events on the lives of one extraordinary family, throwing up intriguing parallels between the past and the present and slowly opening a window onto Ally’s hidden past.

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Everything from the narration to the pacing is perfect, and you cannot help but get curious to hear the other girls’ stories.She heads back immediately to meet her five sisters at their family home Atlantis on the shores of Lake Geneva and is handed the clues to her true heritage… a set of co-ordinates and a little brown fog. The girls’ adoptive father raises them to be responsible, but upon his death, he also leaves them clues that help them trace their heritage. citation needed] In 2016, producer Raffaella De Laurentiis purchased the television rights to this series. 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.

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Ally is about to participate in a perilous yacht race when news about her adoptive father’s demise reaches her. The young woman, still grieving the loss of a father who gave his all for his daughters, follow the clues to a crumbling mansion in Brazil. Riley has developed into one of the most accomplished and creative authors of that perennially popular and seductive blending of past and present. She continued to work, producing five novels during the four years of her illness, but was unable to complete the planned final eighth novel in her Seven Sisters series before her death on 11 June 2021.She rushes to meet her five sisters at home, where she discovers that her billionaire father has left her clues to her true heritage. In The Storm Sister, we take off to the high seas with second sister Ally (Alcyone), head to Oslo for the first performance of Grieg’s iconic Peer Gynt and live through the loves, losses, triumphs and despairs of a remarkable Norwegian family caught up in the sweep of history. Ally has also recently embarked on a deeply passionate love affair that will change her destiny forever. The Storm Sister is like a literary musical score – crashing waves, staccato heartstopping moments and a crescendo waiting in the wings.

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Some say they were the Seven Mothers who seeded our earth – there is no doubt that, in their stories, they were all highly fertile!From 2000 until her death, she was married to Stephen Riley, with whom she also had two children, Leonora and Kit.

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The book also starts to give details about Pa Salt’s life and the role he played in the girl’s past. This is an author who knows how to weave a vast tapestry of people and events, stitching together their lives through different timelines and countries, threading in high drama, tear-jerking angst and simmering passions, and tying up all loose ends with perfect precision and just a tantalising hint of ongoing mystery. He has left each of them a clue to their true heritage, but Star – the most enigmatic of the sisters – is hesitant to step out of the safety of the close relationship she shares with her sister CeCe. When I first had the idea of writing a series of books based on The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades, I had no idea where it would lead me.This series covers the lives of six girls who grew up together while explaining what happened to the seventh of these sisters. and had many children with the various Gods who were fascinated by their strength, beauty and ethereal air of mysticism. Each book covers the past, present, and heritage of these girls, and we start with Maia D’Apliese’s on this one. And with surprises around every corner, the soaring strains of Grieg’s music still ringing in our ears and the mystery of Pa Salt’s death as yet unexplained, it’s good to know that the next sister’s story is already waiting in the wings! And I wanted to celebrate the achievements of women, especially in the past, where so often, their contribution to making our world the place it is today has been overshadowed by the more frequently documented achievements of men.