No, CeCe, I cautioned myself harshly as panic rose inside me, you can do this without her, you really can. Ah, Lucinda, Lucinda. We meet again, on another tech-free holiday. I tend to take Lucinda Riley books on holidays because they are long, not totally boring, and are devoid of anything intellectual.

It’s been ages since I went there last, but I hear it’s huge now—maybe a couple of thousand people. My favorite place is Railay Beach in Krabi. It’s very chilled, but I suppose it depends on what you want.” From 1988 to 1998, she was married to actor Owen Whittaker, with whom she had two children, Harry and Bella. From 2000 until her death, she was married to Stephen Riley, with whom she also had two children, Leonora and Kit. Through her second marriage, she also had three stepchildren, Olivia, William and Max. [2] She took a break from writing, returning to it in 2010; her subsequent novels were published under her married name. Alongside CeCe’s incredible journey, you are also given the story of Kitty McBride, a Scottish ministers daughter, who leaves the dreary shores for Australia as a Ladies maid in 1906, her story is tied closely to CeCe’s but it’s not until further down the line that you actually link everything together fully, by that point you are literally immersed in the lives of these two very different women.In 2007, CeCe (Celaeno) D’Aplièse is on an airplane. She sees the intermittent groups of twinkling lights below, one resembling the Pleiades cluster, the “Seven Sisters,” after which her Swiss billionaire father had named her and six other baby girls he’d adopted from around the world. Only upon his death did CeCe learn something about her biological family. Her inheritance envelope had contained an old photograph, the name Kitty Mercer, and the coordinates of a remote town in Australia. Dyslexic, CeCe left art school in London and, after a brief stopover in Thailand where she encountered another mysterious billionaire, she arrives in Australia seeking her past. CeCe D’Aplièse has never felt she fitted in anywhere. Following the death of her father, the elusive billionaire Pa Salt – so-called by the six daughters he adopted from around the globe and named after the Seven Sisters star cluster – she finds herself at breaking point. Dropping out of art college, CeCe watches as Star, her beloved sister, distances herself to follow her new love, leaving her completely alone. The second storyline, the one set a century before with Kitty McBride traveling from Edinburgh to Adelaide, it was just as interesting, although the romantic part in this storyline was a much more expected. Still, I love getting a story set in Australia, learning more about the Aboriginal people and the unjust treatment they got. If there is one subject that always makes my blood boil is the white man's treatment of the natives in whatever land they set their eyes on.

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. A hundred years earlier, Kitty McBride, daughter of an Edinburgh clergyman, is given the opportunity to travel to Australia as the companion of the wealthy Mrs McCrombie. In Adelaide, her fate becomes entwined with Mrs McCrombie’s family, including the identical, yet very different, twin brothers: impetuous Drummond, and ambitious Andrew, the heir to a pearling fortune.Catherine Gonsholt Ighanian, Seven Sisters author has cancer - "Death does not scare me", (Norwegian), Verdens Gang, 26 May 2019 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 . . . With a mix of Lucinda's Riley's talent for capturing the reader's imagination in yet another spellbinding tale, along with the painstaking historical research at the heart of each novel in the series, Lucinda paints another epic tale of love, loss and discovery. * My Weekly * 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. As she learns about her heritage in Kenya, she is inspired by the life of Cecily Huntley-Morgan, a New York socialite who finds herself thrown into Kenya's decadent ‘Happy Valley' set during the Second World War. At a crossroads in her life, Electra knows she must face up to her addictions. It is only when she opens her heart to people who truly care about her that she discovers where her

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.Of course, I could have booked into business class. I still had some money left from my legacy—but not enough that I wanted to waste it on just another few centimeters of room. Most of my money had gone toward buying the swanky riverside apartment for me and Star in London. I’d thought that a proper home was what she’d wanted, that it would make her happy, but it so hadn’t . . .