The headstrong leader whose fearless nature will be tested – from the Greek Islands and the ‘Fastnet’ sailing race back to the icy beauty of Christiania, the old capital of Norway, and Leipzig in the late 1800’s. Some say they were the Seven Mothers who seeded our earth – there is no doubt that, in their stories, they were all highly fertile! 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. 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.

As Star learns more of Flora's incredible journey, she too goes on a voyage of discovery, finally stepping out of the shadow of her sister and opening herself up to the possibility of love. 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. How well do Ally and the other characters correspond in the modern day to their mythological counterparts? She was born in Ireland and divided her time between England and West Cork with her husband and four children. But with her life now turned upside down, Ally decides to leave the open seas and follow the trail that her father left her, which leads her to the icy beauty of Norway .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’. I’m sure that like me, there will be one sister in particular you will most identify with, and a sister you like the least. 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 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. 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.Many of the characters, such as Ally, Theo and Anna, deal with questions of what ‘home’ really means. As Ally learns more about Anna, she also starts to question who her father really was—and why the seventh sister is missing. How does Pa Salt’s quote for Ally, ‘In moments of weakness, you will find your greatest strength,’ affect and aid her decisions on her journey?