The Butterfly Room

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With strong memories of days spent with her beloved father as a child exploring the grounds of Admiral House and chasing butterflies, Posy cannot bear to let her family home go. Como de costumbre entrañables siempre las narraciones de Lucinda, ya puede ser la historia dura pero la sutileza que utiliza siempre lo convierte en algo amable de leer.

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Then a face appears from the past - Freddie, her first love, who abandoned her and left her heartbroken fifty years ago.En el presente Posy se enfrenta a la difícil decisión de si vender la propiedad de su casa familiar “Admiral house” ya que al ser una mansión con un gran terreno requiere mucho mantenimiento y ella no cuenta con el dinero necesario ni con la fortaleza física para acometer las tareas necesarias. Are you a keen gardener yourself or is there another reason why you decided to include these themes? Still living in her beautiful family home, Admiral House, set in the glorious Suffolk countryside where she spent her own idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and raised her own children, Posy knows she must make an agonising decision. I love Lucinda Rileys books - She's a fantastic story teller and this book didn't lower my expectations either.

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The second part of the novel is Posy’s “current” life — dealing with the problems of her two grown sons, trying to figure out what to do with the rapidly deteriorating Admiral House that has become too expensive to maintain, and the sudden reappearance of a long-lost love. Sam always has some new business venture going on but never any money or success which he always blames on someone else.

As you read The Butterfly Room you are taken on a journey, one that goes back to England during WW II, and present time with Posy’s extremely complicated family relationships and friendships. 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. This epic saga was beautifully written with enticingly mysterious and cleverly intertwining storylines that were threaded with a few heavy secrets and shattering tragedies that this grievously wily author used to taunt and tease me while brutally dangling them rather barbarously out of my reach. It’s a magnificent garden, but a lot of work and her old house needs major repairs and it’s a money pit.