From 2 June with the newspaper “The Seven Sisters”, the first of ten bestsellers by the author who died last year. In her stories: loves, enchanting scenarios, introspection, style and attention to detail
«The Seven Sisters is a story about humanity: love, family, joy, fear, loss and suffering. And, above all, on the most important gift of all, the one that made it possible for mankind to survive unsustainable suffering: hope “, so Lucinda Riley summed up the plot of his incredible bestseller with which he broke all international sales records.
One year after her untimely death (11 June 2021), to celebrate her on “Corriere della Sera” and the weekly “Oggi” present on newsstands a selection of ten works, to be released on a weekly basis. Among the titles in addition to The seven sistersare proposed: The butterfly room, The love letter, The Italian girl, The angel of Marchmont Hall and many others.
Famous novels and much loved by the public, Riley was crowned “queen of pink fiction” thanks to her incredible talent in using the classic scheme of the sentimental novel. With great skill he described love conflicts, mixing them with enchanting scenariosunspeakable secrets and sudden acknowledgments, then enriching the “plot” with highly detailed historical and geographical elements, of great impact on the imagination of his audience.
With an intriguing writing he has always accompanied the reader towards an unexpected ending that does justice to the dynamics told. This is the implicit goal that underpins the immense international success of the romance, positioning this genre beyond mere entertainment and transforming it into a real wellness therapy.
It happens because hidden in sentimental novels there is always a training path for the protagonist that matures and improves through the obstacles and vicissitudes inherent in the plot. In the epilogue of the story she becomes a more serene and aware person, even regardless of age, and this is precisely what gives optimism and, indeed, hope. A powerful and pleasant pain reliever for readers. This is the winning recipe that led the writer to conquer the bestseller lists of the “New York Times” in the United States and the “Sunday Times” in Great Britain, to sell over 30 million copies and to be translated in 39 countries (now is second in the ranking of best-selling books with
the crime novel Delicious from Fleat Housereleased on 25 May by Giunti).
Think that Lucinda Riley’s literary career began by accident. Born in 1965 in Drumbeg, a small town in Northern Ireland near Belfast, she moved several times due to her paternal work. Then at the age of 14 she arrived in London to study at the Italia Conti theater school, which had also attended her mother, an actress who sponsored the choice of her daughter. Dance and acting were the courses followed by Riley who at 16 made her debut with a television role for the BBC. She then continued to act with moderate success until she was twenty-four when she fell ill with mononucleosis and in convalescence, to combat boredom, she wrote her first romance novel, published in 1992. It was the lucky beginning of an inexhaustible inspiration .
The writer, mother of four in real life, has always been very prolific in inventing complex love intrigues that have captivated and amazed her countless and adoring fans. To discover it, you can start with The seven sisters
e, the first volume of the series, on newsstands from 2 June. Riley talking about the genesis of this work had said that the idea of her had come to her looking at the sky on a clear night from the garden of her home in Norfolk, England, where she lived with her family.
It had been bewitched by the constellation of the Pleiades, a series of blue stars generated a hundred million years ago that can be seen to the right of the Orion belt. There are seven and the number of these stars coincides with that of the protagonists of the series that the author has developed, imagining a family of girls of various nationalities, adopted by their father in different countries of the world.
A volume is dedicated to each sister and her story. In the first, The seven sisters, begins the saga of the D’Apliése family (the surname is an anagram that Lucinda Riley had fun inventing starting from the English Pleiades) with the sudden death of the progenitor who brings back to the family castle on Lake Geneva the adult daughters who now they live far away. Their father left them a bizarre form of inheritance: an armillary sphere, which reproduces the ancient object invented by the Greek historian Eratosthenes in 200 BC. C. to decipher the skies and the movements of the stars. Following the engravings on the sphere, Maia, one of her girls, leaves for Rio de Janeiro where other details about her and her will provide clues to her family secrets. And from here the plot proceeds with daring details, twists and surprises.
The first volume a e 8.90. Secrets and passions of a family saga
One year after his death, which took place on 11 June, the Corriere della Sera and the weekly Today bring ten of the best-known novels by bestselling writer Lucinda Riley to their newsstands. Beloved author, Riley made the world dream with her sentimental stories. Translated in 39 countries, sold 30 million copies, the “queen of pink fiction” died last year at the age of 56, from a cancer she had been fighting for four years. The series «The novels of Lucinda Riley», created in collaboration with the Giunti publishing house, recalls her through her most loved stories. Born in Drumbeg, a small town near Belfast, in 1965, Lucinda Riley had worked as an actress in London, before the literary turning point happened by chance. Her first novel (Lovers and Playerssigned with her real name, Lucinda Edmonds) came out in 1992. The series on newsstands with “Corriere della Sera” and “Oggi” was inaugurated by the novel The seven sisters which in 2014 brought Riley notoriety all over the world and inaugurated the homonymous saga which in May 2021 reached the seventh volume. The seven sisters, which starts the D’Apliése family saga, arrives on newsstands today at a price of € 8.90 (in addition to the cost of the newspaper or magazine). Subsequent releases, at the same price, will arrive on a weekly basis. The 2019 novel will be available on newsstands on June 9 The butterfly room; will follow: The love letterof 2018 (on newsstands June 16), Helena’s secretof 2016 (June 23), The Italian girl (June 30) e The angel of Marchmont Hall (July 7), both written in 2014.
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