Wildflowers - the Richard and Judy Book Club summer read 2018 (Evans Harriet)(Paperback) - diskuze

''I adored The Wildflowers. A sweeping, epic, moving read'' MARIAN KEYESRICHARD AND JUDY SUMMER BOOK CLUB PICK 2018Turn the page and find yourself in a Dorset beach house, the sun in your eyes and the sand between your toes. This is the home of Tony and Althea Wilde - the Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor of their generation and with a marriage every bit as stormy. A gorgeous, epic tale of tangled family secrets and lies . . .''A wonderful, engrossing novel, full of the most vivid characters and a truly memorable setting. A triumph'' SOPHIE KINSELLA''She reels you in and then you''re hooked, right to the last page'' PATRICIA SCANLAN''Atmospheric and altogether wonderful'' LESLEY PEARCE''I love it on so many levels, the immense feeling of place, the slow, irresistible sense of being drawn deep into the family and its story, and the strange hovering of menace somewhere in the idyll. Wonderful'' PENNY VINCENZI''Her characters are finely drawn and as the story hops back and forth from the Second World War to the present day, the reader becomes deeply immersed in this charismatic family''s fortunes. The result is that rare and lovely thing, an all-engaging and all-consuming drama'' DAILY MAIL_________________Tony and Althea Wilde. Glamorous, argumentative . . . adulterous to the core. They were my parents, actors known by everyone. They gave our lives love and colour in a house by the sea - the house that sheltered my orphaned father when he was a boy. But the summer Mads arri
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