She had just managed to finish the ‘Seven Sisters’ saga, published in Italy by Giunti (the latest book, “The Lost Sister” came out in May and is still in the top ten of the best sellers): a global phenomenon, translated into 37 languages and which has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. The writer Lucinda Riley died today at the age of 55 «surrounded by her family that was so important to her – the family members write in a note -. We realize this will come as a terrible shock to anyone who was unaware that Dawn had been battling cancer for the past four years. Lucinda touched the lives of everyone she met and who read the pages of her stories. He has lavished love and kindness in everything he has done, and he will continue to inspire us forever. But, above all, Dawn loved life, and lived every moment to the fullest ».
“In the pain and joy of the journey, I learned the most important lesson that life can offer, and I am glad of it. The moment is all we have »is the last message that Lucinda Riley wanted to leave to her numerous fans and readers. And each of his books was truly a journey in technicolor through time and space, from the glittering New York of fashion to the colonial savannah of My Africa, from the noble houses in the English countryside between the two wars to the sparkling Aegean Sea in summer: not surprisingly his Seven Sisters saga will soon become a TV series produced by Raffaella De Laurentiis in Hollywood. She herself had a brief career as an actress in film, theater and television. Irish origins – she was born as Lucinda Edmonds in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, on February 14, 1968 – blonde and petite, she belonged to a lineage of theater actresses and began to tread the stage as a young girl, also interpreting many dramas. Two husbands, four children plus three acquired by her second husband, met thanks to an advertisement for lonely hearts, she wrote the first book at the age of 24 when she was bedridden by a long illness. It never stopped.
The seven sisters of his saga are those of the Pleiades constellation: Merope, Electra, Maia, Alcione (Ally), Celeno (CeCe), Asterope (Star) and Taigete (Tiggy). They were adopted as a baby by a mysterious Swiss billionaire, Pa ‘Salt and had the opportunity to indulge their talents and dreams, which does not mean that they are happy, quite the contrary. Until, at the mysterious death of their father, each of them is not given the opportunity to discover their roots. Which offers Riley the pretext to tell the conquests and sufferings of women over the centuries around the globe: making our heroines touch firsthand that freedom is not taken for granted and only after the journey of self-discovery can the joyful arrive. end. As for passion, the volcanic Irish writer had nothing to envy to her heroines. «They have been my life for seven years – he said -. I may have to go to therapy once it’s over because it will be like losing my best friends. ‘ Instead she left with them