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A legendary island steeped in the mystery and wisdom of centuries...
A runaway heiress learning to trust life, and love...
A mother and daughter, separated for years, searching for a way to face the future together...
New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice tells a powerful story of love, family, and friendship through the lives of two women who reunite at a place where dreams begin--and where they may be fulfilled at last....
Years ago, Lyra Davis left behind a world of wealth and privilege and the people she loved most in the world, unable to reconcile the expectations of her celebrated family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle of Capri, slowly, carefully learning to live fully for the first time, flourishing in the friendship of a singular man who recognizes in her a kindred spirit.
Granddaughter of the reigning doyenne of Newport, Rhode Island, wise beyond her sixteen years, Pell Davis is poised to take her place at the pinnacle of society. Yet she and her young sister still long for the mother who ran away from them when they were children so that they could be raised by the father they adored. Pell knows that Lyra felt she loved them best by leaving. But with her father now dead and her sister veering dangerously into fantasy, she will travel across an ocean to find the mother she remembers and the deeper truths they all need so desperately....
Lyrical, unforgettable, Luanne Rice's new novel unfolds against a background of timeless beauty, as an unlikely love affair reshapes the meaning of devotion and three generations of women resist the pull of memory and tradition to find a new way forward. From the Hardcover edition.
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《出版社週刊》(Publisher's Weekly)評論
The amazingly prolific Rice reintroduces characters from 2009's Geometry of Sisters for this heart-tugger about a reunion of a mother and her two daughters who've been separated for 10 years due to a disturbing secret. Set on the picturesque isle of Capri, Rice's touching tale reflects on how families can survive and thrive despite tragedies. Lyra Nicholson is a lonely heiress living in Italy while her equally lonely daughters, 16-year-old Pell and Lucy, a 14-year-old math whiz, live in Newport, R.Iwith their grandmother. Lucy's already tried to contact (via equations) the ghost of her dead father with Beck, her BFF and the sister of Pell's boyfriend, Travis. Pell travels to Italy, wanting Lyra, who abandoned her and Lucy, to finally take responsibility for them. Max Gardiner, her mother's smitten playwright neighbor, encourages Pell, even as she is distracted by Rafe, Max's 19-year-old recovering addict grandson. Rice gives Pell an old-beyond-her-years stability that Lyra lacks in this beguiling beach read that would suit YA readers as well as their mothers. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Pell Davis is off to the island of Capri to bring her estranged mother, Lyra, home. Lyra left when Pell was six and her sister Lucy was four. Her father raised them until he died, and they moved to Newport, Rhode Island, to live with their cold, jet-setting grandmother. Pell wants her mother home so she can go off to college and not worry about leaving her beloved, troubled sister. She pictures her mother living a life of luxury only to find her living a simple life designing gardens. Never expecting forgiveness and burdened by the untold truth about her exile, Lyra is overwhelmed by her love for her daughter. As Lyra and Pell try to find a way back to each other, Capri works its magic until Lyra tells Pell a shocking family secret. A loosely aligned sequel to popular Rice's The Geometry of Sisters (2009), this moving tale follows a young woman's journey to reunite her family and discover herself.--Engelmann, Patty Copyright 2009 Booklist