To the outside world, Electra D'Aplièse seems to be the woman with everything: as one of the world's top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous.
Yet beneath the veneer and fuelled by the pressure of the life she leads, Electra's already tenuous control over her state of mind has been rocked by the death of her father, Pa Salt, the elusive billionaire who adopted his six daughters from across the globe. Struggling to cope, she turns to alcohol and drugs to ease the pain, and as those around her fear for her health, Electra receives a letter from a complete stranger who claims to be her grandmother...
In 1939, Cecily Huntley-Morgan arrives in Kenya from New York to nurse a broken heart. Staying with her godmother, a member of the infamous Happy Valley set, on the shores of beautiful Lake Naivasha, she meets Bill Forsythe, a notorious bachelor and cattle farmer with close connections to the proud Maasai tribe. When disaster strikes and war is imminent, Cecily decides she has no choice but to accept Bill's proposal. Moving up into the Wanjohi Valley, and with Bill away, Cecily finds herself isolated and alone. Until she discovers a new-born baby abandoned in the woods next to her farmhouse...
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'I don't remember where I was or what I was doing when I heard my father had died'. - Electra, 1
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(Macmillan, 31 October 2019, e-book, 770 pages, borrowed from North Ayrshire Libraries via Borrowbox)
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I really enjoyed The Sun Sister. Electra is my favourite sister so far. She's feisty and real and not afraid of who she is and happy to admit her flaws which I found endearing. I felt she was more real, somehow. Like the other books this moves from the present with Electra finding her blood relatives and the past recounting the past of her ancestors and her birth mother. I enjoyed the chapters set in the past the most as Cecily's story is gripping and heart-breaking at times. I'd recommend this book. I look forward to reading the other books in the series.
