Lucinda Riley (born c.1966 Lucinda Edmonds, in Lisburn, Northern Ireland) is an Irish author of popular historical fiction and a former actress. She spent the first few years of her life in the village of Drumbeg near Belfast before moving to England. At age 14 she moved to London to a specialist drama and ballet school. At 16 she got her first major television role in the BBC adaptation of The Story of the Treasure Seekers, followed shortly afterwards by a memorable guest role in Auf Wiedersehen Pet. She remained a working actress for the next seven years, also marrying, but her career was interrupted by a long bout of mononucleosis at age 23. This caused her to turn to writing, and her first novel Lovers and Players was published in 1992.In 2016 producer Raffaella De Laurentiis purchased the television rights to her five-novel series Seven Sisters.
Fra krigstidens London til nutidens New York og det vindblæste Irland hvirvles fortid og nutid sammen i en uforglemmelig og rørende roman om familierelationer, sorg og tab – men også om kærlighed og håb.
Grania Ryan er vokset op i West Cork på den irske østkyst, men har de seneste ti år boet på Manhattan, hvor hun arbejder som billedhugger. Da hun mister sit ufødte barn, forlader hun sit liv og sin kæreste i New York og vender hjem til sin familie i Irland. Under en voldsom storm møder hun den moderløse og lidt mystiske pige Aurora Lisle, og det bliver et bekendtskab, der kommer til at ændre hendes liv.
Trods sin mors advarsler om ikke at involvere sig med Lisle-familien drages Grania mod den unge Aurora, og der udvikler sig et varmt venskab mellem dem. Da en samling breve fra 1914 dukker op, går det op for Grania, at deres familiers historier er tæt forbundne, og lidt efter lidt kommer et helt århundredes familiehemmeligheder frem i lyset.
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