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    The Shadow Sister
    Audiobook18 hours

    The Shadow Sister

    Written by Lucinda Riley

    Narrated by Jessica Preddy

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    About this audiobook

    When their father dies, Star D'Aplièse and her six sisters, all adopted by him from the four corners of the world, are left with few clues to their 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. In desperation, she decides to follow her first clue, which leads her to an antiquarian bookshop in London, and the start of a whole new world....

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Audio
    Release dateNov 17, 2016
    ISBN9781510052741
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    The Shadow Sister
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    Lucinda Riley

    Lucinda Riley was born in 1965 in Ireland, and after an early career as an actress in film, theatre and television, wrote her first book aged twenty-four. Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and continue to strike an emotional chord with all cultures around the world. The Seven Sisters series specifically has become a global phenomenon, creating its own genre, and there are plans to create a seven-season TV series. Her books have been nominated for numerous awards, including the Italian Bancarella prize, The Lovely Books award in Germany, and the Romantic Novel of the Year award. In 2020 she received the Dutch Platinum award for sales over 300,000 copies for a single novel in one year – an award last won by J K Rowling for Harry Potter. In collaboration with her son Harry Whittaker, she also devised a series of books for children called the Guardian Angels series, based on stories told to her children whenever they were facing a challenging situation. Harry then wrote the books, and they are now being published internationally. Though she brought up her four children mostly in Norfolk in England, in 2015 she fulfilled her dream of buying a remote farmhouse in West Cork, Ireland, which she always felt was her spiritual home, and indeed this was where her last five books were written. Lucinda was diagnosed with cancer in 2017 and died on June 11th 2021, surrounded by her family.

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    • 3/5
      I don’t know what happened here. Did they have different companies publishing the audio books? Like most of the reviewers said, the French accent. I haven’t read the book, so I don’t know if this was the writer or what. I dislike the men in Star’s timeline. They are manbabies. And Star cooking and cleaning, made it worse for me. Of course this is my humble opinion and personal preferences and triggers. 3 Stars for neutrality.
    • 5/5
      Lots of good twists and turns, but all came together nicely at the end. Looking forward to reading other books in the series.
    • 5/5
      Totally hooked on this series. Such diversity and history woven into story.
    • 5/5
      Brilliant! Wonderful 3rd book of this series! Would definitely recommend!
    • 5/5
      Loved this story! I especially liked the way past and present were intertwined and how the pieces to the puzzle fell into place one by one
    • 5/5
      I absolutely adored this whole story! It is the first time in my adult life that I have felt as entertained and enchanted by a book as when I was a child. I was spirited away into past times! I found the story lines historically interesting but also personally enriching and inspiring.
    • 2/5
      The narrator’s interpretation of the accents made this difficult to listen to.
      I look forward to hearing the story of the third sister without such exaggeration of the characters’ accents

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I would have given 5 stars to the book itself. I really like the story and the switching between times. The only thing I don't really like about this audiobook is the use of accents. I think it is too much. Especially the English with a French accent is sometimes hard to listen to.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      No me ha gustado. Se parece a los dos primeros.

      1 person found this helpful