The Pearl Sister (The Seven Sisters, 4)

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Please, look at this nightmare sentence: "Pulling on her woollen vest and fastening the buttons of her dress across her long, white throat, she scraped her mane of auburn hair off her face and into a coil on the top of her head" (P.83). It reads like the fanfiction I wrote when I was 12. Sure, you need to be descriptive when writing, you need to paint a picture. Not that much though? The book is filled with sentences like this, but less than some of her older works. I also found her use of Australian slang and pidgin English cringeworthy. While I understand pidgin English is absolutely a real thing, the execution in the book was flawed. WHERE IS YOUR EDITOR. I WILL EDIT YOUR BOOKS. The lonely wanderer who must find where she belongs – beginning in Scotland 100 years ago, CeCe’s story moves from the beaches of Thailand to the pearling towns and Red Centre of Australia. Now Pa was gone, we were just a bunch of disparate women who had been thrown together as kids, but were now going our separate ways. I took some breaths and tried to do as all my therapists had told me to, which was to analyse why I'd gotten so angry. And for a change, I thought I knew the reason: Ally had told me that all my sisters were happy – they had found lives with people who loved them… Now here I was, no farther on than this time last year when I’d sat next to my sister in economy class, flying across the world to Thailand. Except this time Star wasn’t with me, and I wasn’t running to something, I was running away . . . Endlich war ich in der Stimmung diese Reihe weiterzulesen, aber ich wollte Band 4 aufgrund der Orte an denen dieses Buch spielt, so gerne im Sommer lesen. Außerdem hatte ich mal wieder Lust auf eine Familiengeschichte. Das einzige Genre, wo ich das ganze Drama gerne verfolge!

The Pearl Sister is hands down another mesmerizing, superbly written time-slip novel by Riley that continues to highlight her incredible talent and imagination as a masterful researcher and storyteller. And here was I, as usual the odd one out. Since Pa had died, I'd managed to find nothing except a new and more reliable dealer. Even though I was by far the most financially successful sister… what was the point when I hadn't a clue what else I wanted to do?'When CeCe herself finally reaches the searing heat and dusty plains of the Red Centre of Australia, something deep within her responds to the energy of the area and the ancient culture of the Aboriginal people. As she comes closer to finding the truth of her ancestry, CeCe begins to believe that this untamed, vast continent could offer her what she never thought possible: a sense of belonging, and a home. Spanning continents and decades, this is a well-researched and compelling novel on an epic scale. -- Sunday Express Every corner of the world has become a thrilling new adventure with master storyteller Lucinda Riley…Told through a breathtaking panorama of captivating stories, their fates and fortunes are painted on a broad canvas and all created from a vast sweep of the imagination.’ A cloud of musky perfume descended from above me. I looked up and saw the stewardess leaning over me.

Heard of Krabi,” he said, his jaw working overtime to chew the sausage. “I’m meeting my mates in Bangkok. We’ve still got a couple of weeks until the full moon to decide anyway. You meeting friends out in Oz?” The historical sections feature Kitty McBride, a Scottish clergyman's daughter, who over one hundred years earlier finds herself self in Australia. I loved her and her tragic tale -- and finding out just how she was connected to CeCe.Soon after arriving in Broome in the midst of the wet season – known locally as the Big Wet – I heard the story of the cursed Roseate Pearl. This placed a grain of sand in the oyster shell of what I already had in mind for CeCe’s story. CeCe and Star have always come as a pair. Star the quiet one great with literature and speaks very little, CeCe speaks for them both and virtually overwhelms Star and they even have their own form of sign language to communicate. Riley is survived by Stephen, their two children, Leonora and Kit, the two children of her first marriage, Harry and Bella, and three stepchildren, Olivia, William and Max, as well as her mother and her sister, Georgia. Die Malerei ist nicht unbedingt mein Thema und auch hier fällt CeCe von einer guten Szene in die nächste und wird von positiven Zufällen getragen.