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The Wildflowers

The unputdownable and emotional bestseller about family secrets

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The Wildflowers

By: Harriet Evans
Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
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'I adored The Wildflowers. A sweeping, epic, moving read' Marian Keyes

The new novel by Sunday Times bestseller Harriet Evans will transport you to a Dorset beach house, where you can feel the sand between your toes. Enter the home of Tony and Althea Wilde - the Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor of their generation and with a marriage every bit as stormy. This glorious tale of tangled family secrets and lies will leave you warm and glowing.

Harriet Evans is 'perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes and Maeve Binchy' Best

Tony and Althea Wilde. Glamorous, argumentative ... adulterous to the core.

They were my parents, actors known by everyone. They gave our lives love and colour in a house by the sea - the house that sheltered my orphaned father when he was a boy.

But the summer Mads arrived changed everything. She too had been abandoned and my father understood why. We Wildflowers took her in.

My father was my hero, he gave us a golden childhood, but the past was always going to catch up with him ... it comes for us all, sooner or later.

This is my story. I am Cordelia Wilde. A singer without a voice. A daughter without a father. Let me take you inside.©2018 Harriet Evans Family Life Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romance Women's Fiction Celebrity Heartfelt
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Critic reviews

Readers love The Wildflowers
I adored The Wildflowers. A sweeping, epic, moving read (Marian Keyes)
She reels you in and then you're hooked, right to the last page (Patricia Scanlan)
A wonderful, engrossing novel, full of the most vivid characters and a truly memorable setting. A triumph (Sophie Kinsella)
Atmospheric and altogether wonderful (Lesley Pearse)
Reminiscent of Santa Montefiore with the emotional heart of Jojo Moyes. You'll frequently find yourself uttering the words: just one more page
I love it on so many levels, the immense feeling of place, the slow, irresistible sense of being drawn deep into the family and its story, and the strange hovering of menace somewhere in the idyll. Wonderful (Penny Vincenzi)
Richly layered . . . Oozing at the seams with scandal, secrets, sex and a whole host of unforgettable characters, this is a story to get truly lost in (Isabelle Broom)
A brilliant read
With plenty of family secrets, a gorgeous old house, an involving story featuring characters that leap off the page - there's nothing not to love about this captivating family saga
An evocative slice of escapism
Her characters are finely drawn and as the story hops back and forth from the Second World War to the present day, the reader becomes deeply immersed in this charismatic family's fortunes. The result is that rare and lovely thing, an all-engaging and all-consuming drama
Harriet Evans's characters are superb . . . vibrant, eccentric, emotional, masters and mistresses of high and low!
This beautifully written family saga will make you yearn for summer days
[A] sumptuous and emotional story
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Got into the characters immediately and the narration was really good with different accents and types of speech. I will look for books read by this person in future. The book was well written introducing each chapter with a date so you could keep track of what was happening to who in which time zone. Twist near the end was unexpected. Would recommend

Great listen

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Creative, absorbing and intriguing story with wonderful characters. The house and lifestyle by the sea are magical.

Atmospheric

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Good story which switches between times to reveal the secrets which have torn a family apart and ultimately bring them back together. Would be a good beach read!

Great summer read

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narrated beautifully very slow burn story but worth sticking with it to the end .wonderful characters very moving really brought the book to life

slow burn but brilliant

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it starts slow and you sometimes wonder why you are reading it , but then goes deep into all the layers of every character that is bound together

wonderfully enthralling story

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