Following the bestselling The Seven Sisters, The Storm Sister is the second book in Lucinda Riley's epic saga of love and loss, inspired by the mythology of the Seven Sisters constellation. Ally and Anna both deal with many different kinds of grief throughout their fictional journeys – did you identify with their reactions to their circumstances? The novel ends with an insight into Star’s perspective, a sister that has so far remained enigmatic. Star D’Aplièse is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved father – the elusive billionaire, named Pa Salt by his six daughters, all adopted by him from the four corners of the world.

How do you feel about Pip’s initial lack of understanding towards how Karine and other Jews were treated leading up the World War II? She was born in Ireland and divided her time between England and West Cork with her husband and four children. 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.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.

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. Some say they were the Seven Mothers who seeded our earth – there is no doubt that, in their stories, they were all highly fertile! As Ally learns more about Anna, she also starts to question who her father really was—and why the seventh sister is missing.

The Storm Sister is like a literary musical score – crashing waves, staccato heartstopping moments and a crescendo waiting in the wings. 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’. 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.

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.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 above all, the one gift that is more important than any other, and has kept us humans alive throughout unbearable suffering: HOPE. Many of the characters, such as Ally, Theo and Anna, deal with questions of what ‘home’ really means. 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'. Ally D'Aplièse, in her early thirties, 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.

Following the bestselling The Seven Sisters, The Storm Sister is the second book in Lucinda Riley’s spellbinding series based loosely on the mythology surrounding the famous star constellation. This is the second in a series about glamorous adopted sisters brought up in a castle on Lake Geneva.