The Seven Sisters by Dame Margaret Drabble

The Seven Sisters by Dame Margaret Drabble

Maia D'Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, Atlantis-a fabulous, secluded castle that their beloved father, the elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died. Maia and her sister were all adopted by him as babies and, discovering he has already been buried at sea, each of them is handed a tantalizing clue to their true heritage- a clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of where her story began . . . Eighty years earlier, in the Belle Eqopue of Rio, 1927, Izabela Bonifacio's father has aspirations for his daughter to marry into aristocracy. Meanwhile, architect Heitor da Silva Costa is working on a statue, to be called Christ the Redeemer, and will soon travel to Paris to find the right sculptor to complete his vision. Izabela-passionate and longing to see the world- convinces her father to allow her to accompany him and his family to Europe before she is married. There, at Paul Landowski's studio and in the heady, vibrant cafes of Montparnasse, she meet ambitious young sculptor Laurent Brouilly, and knows to one that her life will never be the same again. In this sweeping epic tale of love and loss-the first in a unique, spellbinding series of seven books, based on the legends of the Seven Sisters star constellation-Lucinda Riley showcases her storytelling talent like never before.

Margaret Drabble is the author of several novels, including The Sea Lady, The Seven Sisters, The Peppered Moth, and The Needle's Eye. She is the editor of the fifth and sixth editions of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, and has published biographies of Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson. She was awarded a Dame of the British Empire in 2008 for her contributions to current English writing.

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ISBN 13	9780156028752
ISBN 10	0156028751
Title	The Seven Sisters
Author	Dame Margaret Drabble
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Harper Perennial
Year published	2003-10-13
Number of pages	307
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