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The Midnight Rose

A spellbinding tale of everlasting love from the bestselling author of The Seven Sisters series

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The Midnight Rose is a spellbinding tale of family secrets, sacrifice, and the everlasting power of love, from Lucinda Riley, international bestselling author of the Seven Sisters series.

India, 1911. Anahita Chavan, from a noble but impoverished family, forms a lifelong friendship with the headstrong Princess Indira, the privileged daughter of Indian royalty. Becoming the princess's official companion, Anahita accompanies her friend to England just before the outbreak of the Great War. There, she meets Donald Astbury, reluctant heir to the magnificent Astbury Estate - and his scheming mother.

Eighty years later, Rebecca Bradley, a young American film star, has the world at her feet. But when her turbulent relationship takes an unexpected turn, she's relieved that her latest role, playing a 1920s debutante, will take her away from the glare of publicity to the wilds of Dartmoor in England. Shortly after filming begins at the now-crumbling Astbury Hall, Ari Malik, Anahita's great-grandson, arrives unexpectedly, on a quest to uncover his family's past.

As Rebecca and Ari begin to unravel the dark secrets that haunt the Astbury dynasty, what they discover will change everything . . .

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum
16. Januar 2014
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
672
Dateigröße
8,60 MB
Altersempfehlung
von 18 bis 99 Jahren
Autor/Autorin
Lucinda Riley
Verlag/Hersteller
Kopierschutz
mit Adobe-DRM-Kopierschutz
Family Sharing
Ja
Produktart
EBOOK
Dateiformat
EPUB
ISBN
9781447261629

Portrait

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 novel aged twenty-four. Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and continue to strike an emotional chord with cultures all around the world. The Seven Sisters series specifically has become a global phenomenon, creating 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. In 2020 she received the Dutch Platinum Award for sales over 300, 000 copies for a single novel in one year - a prize last won by J. K. Rowling for Harry Potter.

In collaboration with her son Harry Whittaker, she also devised and wrote a series of books for children called The Guardian Angels.

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 11 June 2021, surrounded by her family.


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LovelyBooks-BewertungVon luisa_loves_literature am 03.05.2020
The Midnight Rose ist ein netter Unterhaltungsroman, allerdings konnte ich nie wirklich mit den Figuren mitfühlen, da die Figurenzeichnung zu wenig emotionale Tiefe und Glaubwürdigkeit hatte. Auch war die Handlung  nicht so fesselnd und aufregend wie es der Klappentext glauben machte. Stattdessen erzähltThe Midnight Roseeine recht trostlose und melancholische Geschichte, die manchmal auch ins melodramatische abdriftet und so keinesfalls den Eskapismus bietet, den ich erhofft hatte. Das Ende des Romans, das häufig kritisiert wird, hat mir jedoch gut gefallen, auch wenn in der englischen Version die Autorin oder der Lektor scheinbar das Interesse an der Korrektur des Textes verloren haben. Hier häufen sich die Wiederholungen des Offensichtlichen und auch von wörtlicher Rede. Das ist sehr störend und unangenehm und schränkt das Lesevergnügen auch leider ein. (Ich habe den Roman auf Englisch gelesen, meine Rezension findet sich auf Englisch beigoodreads.)