Friday 21 August 2015

Lucinda Riley - The Seven Sisters Review

I have just finished reading The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley.

This is a book that will stay with you long after you finish reading it. The Seven Sisters is the first in a series of seven books about six girls adopted at birth and taken to Geneva by a wealthy man they called Pa Salt. On his death, they each receive clues to their true identity. This, the first book, follows Maia's journey, and what a journey it is. From Switzerland, Brazil and Paris, Lucinda Riley takes you on a vivid historical journey. I can hardly wait until the next book in the series, The Storm Sister is published. I have loved every single one of Lucinda's novels. She is a master storyteller who never ever fails to delivery a fabulous read. I absolutely loved it, and highly recommend it.
 
 
 
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Thursday 20 August 2015

Ann E Brockbank Novelist : New novel published - The Blue Bay Cafe

Ann E Brockbank Novelist : New novel published - The Blue Bay Cafe: Hello Gosh, it's been a long time since I blogged. Why? Because I have been busy writing my new Cornish novel The Blue Bay Café. And ...

New novel published - The Blue Bay Cafe

Hello
Gosh, it's been a long time since I blogged. Why? Because I have been busy writing my new Cornish novel The Blue Bay Café. And here it is, the finished copies in front of the original oil painting Robert W Floyd kindly painted for me to use as the cover.
 
 
 
I have three locations I like to work from.  
Poldhu Beach Café Cornwall (shown below)
 
 
 
Kynance Cove Café Cornwall is the other (see below)
 
 
 And when bad weather prevails and I am forced indoors.  I work from home on the banks of the Helford River, Cornwall, until I produce this.

 
 
 
Although my new novel ‘The Blue Bay Café’ is predominately set in Cornwall, I always send my characters on little trips to other quite wonderful places.

This time we visit Wharfedale in North Yorkshire, Dinan in Brittany, and Lake Bled in the former Yugoslavia.  Inevitability the stories I write will always weave their way back to my beloved Cornwall. So of course the beautiful River Helford village of Gweek and the wild romantic rugged coastal village of Zennor play major parts in my novel.  Here is a little montage of photos of all the beautiful places you will visit if you read my new book.  
 
 
              Gweek, on the River Helford, Cornwall.
                        A beautiful river village.


 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                     Zennor, West Cornwall.
          A truly breath-taking coastal village.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                Lake Bled, Croatia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                        Whafedale in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
          Dinan, Brittany France


 
 
 
 
 


                      A stormy Kynance Cove, Cornwall

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
          Poldhu Cove, where dreams are made while
                      coffee is consumed
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Blue Bay Café

A compelling story of love, loss and secret pasts.

Faye Larson has everything a woman could dream of.  Swept off her feet by the powerful and handsome Liam Knight, she is projected into a jet set world, as the ‘face’ of a top cosmetic company, but why does she feel so dangerously adrift?

In Zennor, West Cornwall, the celebrated Cornish artist Nathanial Prior mourns the death of his beloved wife Elizabeth, and a heartbreaking estrangement from his son.

 When a bitter betrayal sends Faye’s fortunes spiralling out of control, she searches for the simple life within the sanctuary of her family home in Yorkshire, unbeknown that her arrival would bring scandal and heartache to her family.

With her world in tatters, she flees to the safely of a remote Cornish village. There, under blue skies and the warmth of the Cornish sun, two lonely people begin to find hope again. But not everyone is thrilled with her arrival, and soon Faye is painfully aware that her happiness is threatened, and that the past can come back to ruin her life.
 
 
 
 
I now have two Cornish based novels published. Both are available from most Amazon platforms and to download to your Kindle.
If you are lucky enough to visit Cornwall, pop into Waterstones Truro  


 
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