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The Wildflowers
The Wildflowers: A gorgeous family saga, full of secrets and lies | Harriet Evans
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'I adored The Wildflowers. A sweeping, epic, moving read' Marian Keyes The new novel by Sunday Times bestseller Harriet Evans will transport you to a Dorset beach house, where you can feel the sand between your toes. Enter the home of Tony and Althea Wilde - the Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor of their generation and with a marriage every bit as stormy. This glorious tale of tangled family secrets and lies will leave you warm and glowing. 'A wonderful, engrossing novel, full of the most vivid characters and a truly memorable setting. A triumph' Sophie Kinsella 'She reels you in and then you're hooked, right to the last page' Patricia Scanlan 'I love it on so many levels, the immense feeling of place, the slow, irresistible sense of being drawn deep into the family and its story, and the strange hovering menace of somewhere in the idyll. Wonderful' Penny Vincenzi Tony and Althea Wilde. Glamorous, argumentative ... adulterous to the core. They were my parents, actors known by everyone. They gave our lives love and colour in a house by the sea - the house that sheltered my orphaned father when he was a boy. But the summer Mads arrived changed everything. She too had been abandoned and my father understood why. We Wildflowers took her in. My father was my hero, he gave us a golden childhood, but the past was always going to catch up with him ... it comes for us all, sooner or later. This is my story. I am Cordelia Wilde. A singer without a voice. A daughter without a father. Let me take you inside. Harriet Evans is 'perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes and Maeve Binchy' Best
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readingjedi
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Although the premise of the plot has Been Done. To. Death and the structure was The Same Old, Same Old this is still a compelling and entertaining read. Evans has created some intriguing, though not always likeable, characters especially the sleazy Tony who's backstory actually had me sympathizing with the adulterous old goat! The care-free, innocent & idyllic summers are really evocatively described and the ending brought a wistful tear.

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Started this one today. Was a little discombobulated to find it features a character called Althea so soon after finishing the Liveship Traders!

Unpopular Opinion Alert! I am not a fan of Marian Keyes so the fact that she recommends this puts me off slightly but it's been lurking on my Kindle forever so I'll give it a go!

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http://heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/among-the-wildflowers-by-macey-spensley. My daughter is so excited, she had her first creative writing story published by an online literary magazine. She was nervous about sharing such a personal story, but I think she rocked it! Macey graduates from the Univ. of Iowa in May! I'm so proud of her!

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Read this on my summer holidays and loved the storyline and the author's writing style.

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