Then a face appears from the past - Freddie, her first love, who abandoned her and left her heartbroken fifty years ago. Still living in her beautiful family home, Admiral House, set in the glorious Suffolk countryside where she spent her own idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and raised her own children, Posy knows she must make an agonizing decision.ĭespite the memories the house holds, and the exquisite garden she has spent twenty-five years creating, the house is crumbling around her, and Posy knows the time has come to sell it.
Posy Montague is approaching her seventieth birthday. The Butterfly Room by Lucinda Riley (pb) £9.99 Full of her trademark mix of unforgettable characters and heart-breaking secrets, The Butterfly Room is a spellbinding, multi-generational story from Sunday Times bestseller Lucinda Riley. 'A gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory' Madeline Miller, author of Circe and The Song of Achilles'Įverything about this brilliant debut cuts deep: the humor, the wisdom, the pathos' Rebecca Makkai LIZA, a professor, is pregnant with a baby she's not sure she wants by a man she's not sure she loves and GRACE, their dawdling youngest daughter, lives a lie that no one in her family suspects. WENDY, their eldest, a cause for concern, soothes herself with drink after being widowed young, while VIOLET, lawyer-turned-stay-at-home-mother, is disturbed by the reappearance of a son placed for adoption fifteen years earlier. MARILYN has somehow fallen into motherhood and spent four decades married to DAVID, who's pretty certain he loves her more than anyone has ever loved another person. I predict late success with the paperback, it has been longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and is a superb summer read.
This book got a little overlooked when published as a hardback because it was simply gigantic. The Most Fun we Ever Had, by Claire Lombardo ( paperback, June 2020) £8.99
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