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rbharath's review
4.0
A brutal crime fuelled by greed sees two parents killed, but their triplets (girls) survive quite by chance and luck helped a little by the dying mother. The criminal ensures they are separated and the crime is camouflaged as an accident.
While Rose Fiorello and Poppy Allen grow up in Australia, Daisy Markham grows up in London. Their interests are different – but the zeal to succeed in their respective professional areas is common to them.
Rose Fiorello enters the real estate business, and is also driven by a hatred for Rothstein Realty. She quickly finds the right contacts, and her imagination and foresight ensures she is successful very quickly.
Poppy Allen wants to be a rock star, but later realizes she is better off managing bands. After some time she launches her own management firm.
Daisy Markham has her insecurities, but finds her niche in writing novels, becoming a bestselling author.
All three are very successful, and all of them find love. It is quite by chance that they meet, and as it turns out, they have strikingly similar looks. A desire to dig into the past seizes them.
The book does very well in establishing the personalities of Rose, Poppy and Daisy. A large part of the book deals with how they become successful and is interesting reading, though a little too long. The section devoted to covering how the three go about tracing their past is accorded very little space towards the end of the book and could have been much better.
Overall, certainly a recommended read.
While Rose Fiorello and Poppy Allen grow up in Australia, Daisy Markham grows up in London. Their interests are different – but the zeal to succeed in their respective professional areas is common to them.
Rose Fiorello enters the real estate business, and is also driven by a hatred for Rothstein Realty. She quickly finds the right contacts, and her imagination and foresight ensures she is successful very quickly.
Poppy Allen wants to be a rock star, but later realizes she is better off managing bands. After some time she launches her own management firm.
Daisy Markham has her insecurities, but finds her niche in writing novels, becoming a bestselling author.
All three are very successful, and all of them find love. It is quite by chance that they meet, and as it turns out, they have strikingly similar looks. A desire to dig into the past seizes them.
The book does very well in establishing the personalities of Rose, Poppy and Daisy. A large part of the book deals with how they become successful and is interesting reading, though a little too long. The section devoted to covering how the three go about tracing their past is accorded very little space towards the end of the book and could have been much better.
Overall, certainly a recommended read.
ems_newrick7's review
2.0
Utterly trashy and yet I felt compelled to finish it. Awful ending, felt rushed. Good escape book to read a couple of chapters of at bedtime but won’t be making it onto my list of recommendations.
cake_sniffer's review
4.0
I originally read this book in my teens and having had a sort through my books, I decided to read it again.
The book follows the lives of Italian-born triplets who were separated at birth by their jealous cousin once removed who murdered their parents.
Poppy, Rose and Daisy are all adopted by loving families but all have a very different home life. Rebellious Poppy is brought up in LA by her rich lawyer parents and is spoilt by their money and connections. Rose lives in New York with her deli-owner parents who are struggling to keep their house and livelihood from bullying real estate firm - Rothstein. Daisy was brought up in England and attends an all girls boarding school and struggles with both her weight and her confidence.
All three girls have their setbacks; Poppy's parents dislike of her music and lifestyle choices, Rose's parents financial struggles and Daisy's belief in her abilities, however all three go on to flourish in their careers and each of them become independent business women despite the people who want to see them fail.
I really enjoy this book and is the only Louise Bagshawe novel I've read. It's an easy read that's hard to put down and despite it being very different from my usual reads, I love it just as much.
The book follows the lives of Italian-born triplets who were separated at birth by their jealous cousin once removed who murdered their parents.
Poppy, Rose and Daisy are all adopted by loving families but all have a very different home life. Rebellious Poppy is brought up in LA by her rich lawyer parents and is spoilt by their money and connections. Rose lives in New York with her deli-owner parents who are struggling to keep their house and livelihood from bullying real estate firm - Rothstein. Daisy was brought up in England and attends an all girls boarding school and struggles with both her weight and her confidence.
All three girls have their setbacks; Poppy's parents dislike of her music and lifestyle choices, Rose's parents financial struggles and Daisy's belief in her abilities, however all three go on to flourish in their careers and each of them become independent business women despite the people who want to see them fail.
I really enjoy this book and is the only Louise Bagshawe novel I've read. It's an easy read that's hard to put down and despite it being very different from my usual reads, I love it just as much.
lainibop's review
4.0
This was my second Louise Bagshawe novel to read, the first being Tall Poppies which I really enjoyed.
I like the way she weaves her stories and her character to interconnect without them ever knowing. In this, triplets are separated after their parents are murderered by their treacherous uncle who wishes to take over the family fortune. He saves them as the last dying wish of their mother but sends them to different parts of the world to be adopted. Rose was sent to New York,adopted by Deli owners, Daysie to England where her parents sent her to boarding school and Poppy sent to LA living with a very rich family.
The Novel follows their lives from school to their mid twenties, their struggles and successes.
One fault I have which is that Bagshawe's stories always follow the same format. Girl wants success, but something stands in her way, meanwhile there is another girl(or 2) in the backround facing similar struggles, but these girls are very different, probably wouldn't get on if they met, but there is something that ties them together. So far it is a format which is working for her, but I'm not sure if I was to read another novel, if I could bear knowing more or less what is going to happen. But I'd be willing to give it a go!!
I like the way she weaves her stories and her character to interconnect without them ever knowing. In this, triplets are separated after their parents are murderered by their treacherous uncle who wishes to take over the family fortune. He saves them as the last dying wish of their mother but sends them to different parts of the world to be adopted. Rose was sent to New York,adopted by Deli owners, Daysie to England where her parents sent her to boarding school and Poppy sent to LA living with a very rich family.
The Novel follows their lives from school to their mid twenties, their struggles and successes.
One fault I have which is that Bagshawe's stories always follow the same format. Girl wants success, but something stands in her way, meanwhile there is another girl(or 2) in the backround facing similar struggles, but these girls are very different, probably wouldn't get on if they met, but there is something that ties them together. So far it is a format which is working for her, but I'm not sure if I was to read another novel, if I could bear knowing more or less what is going to happen. But I'd be willing to give it a go!!
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