The Olive Tree: The bestselling story of secrets and love under the Cyprus sun

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Although much of the plot and the characters are of course fictional, there is no doubt that this is the closest I’ve come to drawing from my own life experience of being a mother, stepmother, wife, and trained dancer.

When Helena meets her childhood sweetheart by chance, a chain of events is set in motion that threatens to make her past and present collide.The first three books, The Seven Sisters, The Storm Sisters and The Shadow Sisters have all been No1 bestsellers across Europe, and the rights to a multi- season TV series have already been optioned by a Hollywood production company. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages and sold over ten million copies worldwide. Presently she is happily married to William and he has always felt that she has kept a part of her life from him which he finds frustrating yet endearing at the same time. Riley cleverly juggles multiple timelines and viewpoints of different family members at various stages of their lives, making us root for every single one of them and forcing us to ponder the fleeting nature of our own life.

Yet Helena knows that the idyllic beauty of Pandora masks a web of secrets she has kept from William, her husband, and Alex, her son.And she promises that one day, I will have to crouch down to see my face in the water-splashed mirrors such as this one.

Die Geschichte wird aus verschiedenen Perspektiven erzählt, man liest viel aus der Sicht des Sohnes, der zwar manchmal recht altklug erscheint, aber eben doch viele kindliche Züge hat.

But her self-loathing was just too much to take, and if she gracefully glided from one more room being perfectly perfect and stunningly beautiful, I may very well have thrown up.

Todos los personajes están bien escritos, y me han encantado las subtramas, pero al acabar la lectura me he quedado con la sensación de que la autora podría haber explotado mucho mas la trama y ponernos a todos mas en tensión. Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and continue to strike an emotional chord with all cultures around the world. In our community of readers, you stand out in a notable way: You're one of the top 1% of reviewers on Goodreads!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.