I watched her scribble something onto her notepad, which probably went along the lines of “refusing to deal with father’s death.” It was what the last shrink had said to me, and I was so totally dealing with it. “You can’t remember how you felt at that moment?” “You seem angry about his death, Electra. “Were you thinking about how you felt when your father died?”Īs I couldn’t exactly tell her what I had been thinking, I nodded earnestly. I decided she could be pretty if she wanted to be, but I knew she wasn’t interested in anything but looking intelligent. She had great legs under the knee-length tweed skirt she was wearing and good hair, too. She blinked a lot behind her little round glasses, and her lips were permanently pursed. She reminded me of the sleepy dormouse at Alice in Wonderland’s tea party or one of his ratty friends. I stared at Theresa, sitting in her leather wingback chair.

I don’t remember where I was or what I was doing when I heard my father had died.”

Until she meets a young woman in the woods and makes her a promise that will change the course of her life forever.įeaturing Lucinda Riley’s “engaging and mesmerizing” ( Library Journal, starred review) storytelling and filled with unforgettable and moving characters, The Sun Sister explores how love can cross seemingly impossible boundaries. After a shocking discovery and with war looming, Cecily feels isolated and alone. Cecily soon grows to love her stunning but complicated new home, and she even accepts a proposal of marriage from an enigmatic older cattle farmer. But after a sheltered upbringing, she’s astounded by the hedonistic antics of the other ex-pats in the infamous Happy Valley set. In 1939, New Yorker Cecily Huntley-Morgan arrives in Kenya’s Lake Naivasha region for the exciting chance to stay with her godmother, the famous socialite Kiki Preston. As friends and colleagues fear for her health, Electra receives a shocking letter from a stranger who claims to be her grandmother. When her father dies, she turns to alcohol and drugs to ease the pain. But beneath the glittery veneer, she’s cracking under all the pressure. An epic and transporting novel, the latest installment of the “h eart-wrenching, uplifting, and utterly enthralling” (Lucy Foley, author of The Guest List) Seven Sisters series, unravelling between the dazzling streets of modern-day New York City and the breathtaking plains of 1940s colonial Kenya.Įlectra d’Aplièse is a top model who seems to have it all: beauty, fame, and wealth.

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