It is set on the idyllic island of Cyprus and takes us into the lives of two main families who on the surface seem to have it all, great relationships, beautiful houses, and good kids, but over the course of one hot summer marriages will be tested, secrets will be revealed, love will be found, love will be lost, and lives will be changed forever. This was a brave step for the author to do as she has become synonymous for her historical fiction and the current series she is working on. A good story about past love and secrets can work just as well without the need to incorporate such toxic masculine discourses. I savoured this book as I wanted it to last, I added the audiobook and was touched as Lucinda Riley narrated it with her son Harry Whittaker. Creo que está muy bien documentada y ambientada, los lugares de ensueño, las costumbres, las leyendas y la mitología.

Sprinkle a little drama - because apparently people are not allowed to keep secrets - plus a little pointless jealousy, like in all "good" soap operas, and you have a garbage book that's best fitted for middle-aged divorcees who will never find love again and drown their sorrow in red wine.Me pareció un chico muy dulce bajo esa capa de arrogancia que tienen todos los adolescentes a esa edad, ya que, como todos los niños, quiere que su familia esté bien y poder conectar con ellos de verdad, debido a que su coeficiente intelectual es superior al promedio y eso también lo hace ser un niño diferente.

Tantalising hints are dropped throughout, nothing is ever rushed as Lucinda gives her readers an overall view of the holiday and background to the characters and thoughts and actions. No la conocí en persona, pero sentí pena y hasta un poco de temor, de qué pasaría con su obra, más que recién estaba comenzando a juntar la saga de “Las siete hermanas”.

I've never reviewed a book by Lucinda before I don't know why but given the opportunity to do so I jumped at the chance with this new book The Olive Tree. Reading a teenage boy’s journal gave me a few giggles, as his raging hormones take over him and his first love. Yes, it is, as it doesn’t have the ‘sweeping’ historical background, or the one-hundred-year time span that I have become known for writing about. In our lives, there are so many different kinds of love that touch us and affect us everyday – love for a child, for a husband, for a parent, for a friend… All of these are special and valuable in their own way.