'A gorgeous epic . . . Wholly absorbing. I adored it' MARIAN KEYES
'This sweeping, absorbing story is a treat' ADELE PARKS 'A
compelling story of female friendship, dark secrets and family
bonds that pulls you in and won't let go' ROSANNA LEY 'If you love
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Prima BY SUMMER'S END, THERE WILL BE ONLY ONE . . . 'It's a funny
old house. They have this ceremony every summer . . . There's an
old chapel, in the grounds of the house. Half-derelict. The Hunters
keep bees in there. Every year, on the same day, the family
processes to the chapel. They open the combs, taste the honey. Take
it back to the house. Half for them -' my father winced, as though
he had bitten down on a sore tooth. 'And half for us.' Catherine, a
successful barrister, vanishes from a train station on the eve of
her anniversary. Is it because she saw a figure - someone she
believed long dead? Or was it a shadow cast by her troubled,
fractured mind? The answer lies buried in the past. It lies in the
events of the hot, seismic summer of 1989, at Vanes - a mysterious
West Country manor house - where a young girl, Jane Lestrange,
arrives to stay with the gilded, grand Hunter family, and where a
devastating tragedy will unfold. Over the summer, as an ancient
family ritual looms closer, Janey falls for each member of the
family in turn. And she and Kitty, the eldest daughter of the
house, will forge a bond that decades later, is still shaping the
present . . . 'We need the bees to survive, and they need us to
survive. Once you understand that, you understand the history of
Vanes, you understand our family.' 'Bewitching, beguiling and
utterly beautiful, The Beloved Girls will pull you into their
mysterious and enchanted world and never let you go. With a cast of
compelling characters and a labyrinthine plot, it's a page-turner
of the most luxurious kind - a real escape.' VERONICA HENRY
Compelling, immersive and luxurious, THE BELOVED GIRLS is the
outstanding new novel from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling
author of The Garden of Lost and Found and your perfect summer
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