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The new novel by Sunday Times best seller 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.

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 (P)2018 Headline Publishing Group Ltd Romance Celebrity Heartfelt

Critic reviews

"I adored The Wildflowers. A sweeping, epic, moving read." (Marian Keyes)
"Perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes and Maeve Binchy." ( Best)
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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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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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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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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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