The Olive Tree: A gripping story of secrets and love under the Cyprus sun from the bestselling author of The Seven Sisters series - Softcover

Riley, Lucinda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509824758 ISBN 13: 9781509824755

Verlag: Pan, 2017

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The Olive Tree is a sun-soaked story of family secrets and an unforgettable summer in Cyprus, from Lucinda Riley, international bestselling author of the Seven Sisters series.

A magical house. A momentous summer . . .

As a young woman, Helena spent a magical holiday at Pandora, a beautiful house in Cyprus – and fell in love for the first time. Now, twenty-four years later and following the loss of her godfather, she has inherited Pandora. And, though it is a crumbling shadow of its former self, Helena returns with her family to spend the summer there.

When, by chance, Helena meets her childhood sweetheart, her past threatens to collide with her present. She knows that the idyllic beauty of Pandora masks a web of secrets that she has kept from her husband and thirteen-year-old son. And that, once its secrets have been revealed, their lives will never be the same . . .

'It will whisk you away to the glorious sunshine of Cyprus' – Daily Express

_{This title has been published outside the UK under the title Helena's Secret.}

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Lucinda Riley was born in Ireland in 1965 and, after an early career as an actress in film, theatre and television, wrote her first novel aged twenty-four. Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and continue to strike an emotional chord all around the world. The Seven Sisters series specifically has become a global phenomenon, inspiring its own genre.

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. She has received the Dutch Platinum Award for sales over 300,000 copies for a single novel in one year multiple times – a prize last won by J. K. Rowling for Harry Potter. In collaboration with her son Harry Whittaker, she also devised and wrote the Guardian Angels series of books for children.

Though she brought up her four children mostly in Norfolk, 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 this was where her last five books were written. Lucinda was diagnosed with cancer in 2017 and died on 11 June 2021, surrounded by her family.

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A stunning new contemporary novel from the author of the Seven Sisters series

It has been twenty-four years since a young Helena spent a magical holiday in Cyprus, where she fell in love for the first time. When the now crumbling house, ‘Pandora’, is left to her by her godfather, she returns to spend the summer there with her family.

Yet, as soon as Helena arrives at Pandora, she knows that its idyllic beauty masks a web of secrets that she has kept from William, her husband, and Alex, her son. At the difficult age of thirteen, Alex is torn between protecting his beloved mother, and growing up. And equally desperate to learn the truth about his real father . . .

When, by chance, Helena meets her childhood sweetheart, a chain of events is set in motion that threatens to make her past and present collide. Both Helena and Alex know that life will never be the same, once Pandora’s secrets have been revealed.

Praise for Lucinda Riley

‘An absolutely fantastic storyteller . . . A real treat’
Katherine Webb

‘Wonderful! Absolutely impossible to put down! The Seven Sisters books just keep getting better and better’ Tracy Rees

‘A brilliant page-turner just soaked in glamour and romance’ Daily Mail

‘The Shadow Sister really is Lucinda’s best yet. The scope of this series is breath-taking and each book is more captivating than the last’ Iona Grey

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1509824758
• ISBN 13: 9781509824755
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 608
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Van Ditmar Boeken, VDB Sales; sales@vanditmar.nl; ; Papendorpseweg 99; Utrecht; 3528 BJ; Niederlande