The Forgotten Letter, by Lucinda Riley

The Forgotten Letter, by Lucinda Riley
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The Irish Lucinda riley returns to the attack with one of his captivating stories. And it does so by drawing on its usual historical scenery, but always focusing the narrative interest on succulent intrahistories that link the present and the past.

Riley's mastery of combining the romantic, the tragic, the epic and the melancholic in his literary cocktails, mixed together to awaken the magical foam of yesterday, ends up offering that intoxicating taste of the nineteenth century.

This time Lucinda has thought of magnetizing us with a mystery. Because from the London of 1995 we have been impelled to undertake a journey around the life of Sir James Harrison.

Only the great secrets are kept for posterity. If, in addition, it is sought to be disseminated in writing for the record when one is gone, it is because the matter transcends the existence of oneself, exceeding the value of a vital confession.

The family of Sir James Harrison, one of the most famous actors of his time, almost in parallel with the introduction of the first great films.

And of course, his growing fame in the 20s gave him that social rise, that recognition with which he could rub shoulders with the elites. And that's where James' secret is born. The days when he learned about transcendent plans in that interwar Europe.

Sir James's will was perhaps not that his manuscript reached Johanna Haslam, the most incisive of journalists. But perhaps the fate if it had foreseen this tie to provoke the pertinent investigation.

If Sir James was right. If what he claimed in his testimony took on any overtones of truth, English high society would feel its foundations shake with the shock.

It only remains for Johanna to act as the journalist that she is and follow the clues to show us a reality full of mysteries and betrayals that can even spill over herself in her search.

Because the truth can make freedom. But on occasion its price may be too high.

You can now buy the novel The forgotten letter, Lucinda Riley's new book, here:

The Forgotten Letter, by Lucinda Riley
Available here
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