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The Wildflowers

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What to expect

'I adored The Wildflowers. A sweeping, epic, moving read' Marian Keyes

The new novel by Sunday Times bestseller Harriet Evans will transport you to a Dorset beach house, where you can feel the sand between your toes. Enter the home of Tony and Althea Wilde - the Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor of their generation and with a marriage every bit as stormy. This glorious tale of tangled family secrets and lies will leave you warm and glowing.

Harriet Evans is 'perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes and Maeve Binchy' Best

Tony and Althea Wilde. Glamorous, argumentative ... adulterous to the core.

They were my parents, actors known by everyone. They gave our lives love and colour in a house by the sea - the house that sheltered my orphaned father when he was a boy.

But the summer Mads arrived changed everything. She too had been abandoned and my father understood why. We Wildflowers took her in.

My father was my hero, he gave us a golden childhood, but the past was always going to catch up with him ... it comes for us all, sooner or later.

This is my story. I am Cordelia Wilde. A singer without a voice. A daughter without a father. Let me take you inside.

Critics Review

Readers love The Wildflowers
I adored The Wildflowers. A sweeping, epic, moving read
Marian Keyes
She reels you in and then you're hooked, right to the last page
Patricia Scanlan
A wonderful, engrossing novel, full of the most vivid characters and a truly memorable setting. A triumph
Sophie Kinsella
Atmospheric and altogether wonderful
Lesley Pearse
Reminiscent of Santa Montefiore with the emotional heart of Jojo Moyes. You'll frequently find yourself uttering the words: just one more page
CultureFly
I love it on so many levels, the immense feeling of place, the slow, irresistible sense of being drawn deep into the family and its story, and the strange hovering of menace somewhere in the idyll. Wonderful
Penny Vincenzi
Richly layered . . . Oozing at the seams with scandal, secrets, sex and a whole host of unforgettable characters, this is a story to get truly lost in
Heat
A brilliant read
Fabulous
With plenty of family secrets, a gorgeous old house, an involving story featuring characters that leap off the page - there's nothing not to love about this captivating family saga
Woman & Home
An evocative slice of escapism
Good Housekeeping
Her characters are finely drawn and as the story hops back and forth from the Second World War to the present day, the reader becomes deeply immersed in this charismatic family's fortunes. The result is that rare and lovely thing, an all-engaging and all-consuming drama
Daily Mail
Harriet Evans's characters are superb . . . vibrant, eccentric, emotional, masters and mistresses of high and low!
My Weekly
This beautifully written family saga will make you yearn for summer days
The Sun
[A] sumptuous and emotional story
Sunday Mirror
Author Harriet Evans
Narrator Lucy Paterson
Duration 16 hours and 52 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781472245311
Format Audiobook
Publisher Headline
Genre Modern and contemporary fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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