Maia D'Aplièse and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home - a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva - having been told that their beloved adoptive father, the elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died.
Each of them is handed a tantalising clue to their true heritage - a clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil . . .
Eighty years earlier, in the Belle Époque of Rio, 1927, Izabela Bonifacio's father aspires for his daughter to marry into aristocracy. But Izabela longs for adventure and convinces him to allow her to accompany the family of a renowned architect on a trip to Paris. In the heady, vibrant streets of Montparnasse, she meets ambitious young sculptor Laurent Brouilly, and knows at once that her life will never be the same again.
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I will always remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard that my father had died.- 1
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(@panmacmillan, 6 November 2014, e-book, 651 pages, borrowed from @AmazonKindle via #PrimeReading)
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I really enjoyed The Seven Sisters and will read the other books in the series. The books get promoted a lot on Amazon because their popular and my interest has been piqued for a while. I've borrowed the second book, so I'll read that soon. I liked the way the book moves from the present with the sisters mourning their father and Maia's story searching for her birth mother and then the past telling the story of her mother, Izabela. I liked the way the past and present overlap and eventually meet. This is a long book, but it didn't slog or drag. I was captivated by it.
