Most of the story is in the present, but we do go back to the past and when that happens, it seems that it’s to give us more of Posy’s backstory so that we are able to fill in missing information. This is a multi faceted read that centres on family and all the problems that can bring as well as love, secrets and living for the moment. Lucinda Riley was born in Ireland, and after an early career as an actress in film, theatre, and television, wrote her first book aged twenty-four.

THE BUTTERFLY ROOM | Lucinda Riley THE BUTTERFLY ROOM | Lucinda Riley

Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Then a face appears from the past – Freddie, her first love, who abandoned her and left her heartbroken fifty years ago. Through her grandmother, Electra learns about Celia Huntley-Washington, a young woman from New York, who arrives in Kenya in 1939 when the world is at the brink of war. They are such a great break from all the thrillers I love reading and this one came at the perfect time.She spent the first few years of her life in the village of Drumbeg near Belfast before moving to England. Riley certainly knows how to evoke an emotional response out of her readers and her characters all are so richly drawn that you can’t help but want the best for them. Since writing the initial manuscript, I realized I had grown a great deal as an author, and many of the characters gained more depth and complexity.

The Butterfly Room by Lucinda Riley | Goodreads The Butterfly Room by Lucinda Riley | Goodreads

If she sells she can help her son Sam with his new property development company and downsize at the same time.I had some theories about Posy’s family situation, but the final culmination of events and the shocking revelations that are made by the close of the novel took me aback. I’ve always loved Southwold and spent summers there with my children, crabbing just like Posy does with Clementine.