A review by booksbycc
The Butterfly Room by Lucinda Riley

5.0

Published 2019
" For my mother-in-law, Valerie, with love.
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Whenever I pick up a book of Lucinda's I have an expectation; which I know is unfair and irrational and and and but, I do. So opening this I was expecting one thing and got something else. Something more.
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When you grow up princess of the butterflies and your dad king of the garden your days are filled with mud, sunshine and happiness.
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Posy and her dad both loved nature so much she followed in his foot steps studying Botany at Cambridge, where she flourished alongside the foliage. She was of the 1st women to be at the prestigious university and fell in love with education and feminism and Freddie...
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'Atmospheric, heart-rending and multilayered' - Grazia
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I absolutely agree @Grazia. At the end I couldn't stop the tears from flowing. Yet another beautiful piece of work. What I love about Lucinda the most is, she is not selfish with the pages; It's all bulky 600+ pages me love that so much, thank you @lucindarileyofficial