Ally D’Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world’s most dangerous yacht races when she learns of her adoptive father’s sudden, mysterious death. But the timing is bad: Ally had only recently embarked on a deeply passionate love affair, but with her life now turned upside down, she opts to leave the open seas and follow the trail that her father left her, leading her to the icy beauty of Norway. and had many children with the various Gods who were fascinated by their strength, beauty and ethereal air of mysticism. There, Ally begins to discover her roots – and how her story is inextricably bound to that of a young unknown singer, Anna Landvik, who lived there over a hundred years before, and sang in the first performance of Grieg's iconic music set to Ibsen's play 'Peer Gynt'. Many of the characters, such as Ally, Theo and Anna, deal with questions of what ‘home’ really means.

She is happy and secure in her home in the Lake District, living close to her idol, Beatrix Potter, when machinations outside her control lead her to London, and the home of one of Edwardian society’s most notorious players, Alice Keppel. And then there is Pa Salt, the sisters’ enigmatic father, his character only seen through the eyes of his grieving daughters after he dies. The book mentions a lot of different pieces of music – do you find that having a ‘soundtrack’ to a novel helps create a sense of atmosphere? How well do Ally and the other characters correspond in the modern day to their mythological counterparts?Ally D’Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world’s most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father’s sudden, mysterious death.

The silent one who must find her voice – set in London and Edwardian England, featuring Royal scandals and Beatrix Potter in the beautiful Lake District. Ally has also recently embarked on a deeply passionate love affair that will change her destiny forever. As Ally learns more about Anna, she also starts to question who her father really was—and why the seventh sister is missing. She was born in Ireland and divided her time between England and West Cork with her husband and four children. How does Pa Salt’s quote for Ally, ‘In moments of weakness, you will find your greatest strength,’ affect and aid her decisions on her journey?And above all, the one gift that is more important than any other, and has kept us humans alive throughout unbearable suffering: HOPE. But with her life now turned upside down, Ally decides to leave the open seas and follow the trail that her father left her, leading to the icy beauty of Norway . There, Ally begins to discover her roots – and how her story is inextricably bound to that of a young unknown singer, Anna Landvik, who lived there over a hundred years before, and sang in the first performance of Grieg’s iconic music set to Ibsen’s play ‘Peer Gynt’. This is the second in a series about glamorous adopted sisters brought up in a castle on Lake Geneva. And I wanted to celebrate the achievements of women, especially in the past, where so often, their contribution to making our world the place it is today has been overshadowed by the more frequently documented achievements of men.

Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she discovers that her father – an elusive billionaire affectionately known to his daughters as Pa Salt – has left each of them a tantalizing clue to their true heritage. When Ally discovers her musical heritage, it re-awakens her creativity and her passion for playing the flute. Following on from the bestselling The Seven Sisters and The Storm Sister, The Shadow Sister is the third book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series of love and loss, inspired by the mythology of the Seven Sisters constellation. The world is sadly still not a perfect place, and I doubt it ever will be, because there will always be a new challenge ahead.

I’m sure that like me, there will be one sister in particular you will most identify with, and a sister you like the least.