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The hidden girl

Born and raised in a small village on the Yorkshire moors, Leah Thompson grows more beautiful with each passing day. When she catches the attention of the influential, troubled Delancey family, she knows her life will never be the same again. Years later, Leah takes the modelling world by storm, tra...

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Main Author: Riley, Lucinda, 1965-2021 (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: London : Macmillan, 2024.
Edition:Revised and updated edition.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Poland > Fiction.
Prophecies > Fiction.
Fate and fatalism > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
Models (Persons) > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
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Summary:Born and raised in a small village on the Yorkshire moors, Leah Thompson grows more beautiful with each passing day. When she catches the attention of the influential, troubled Delancey family, she knows her life will never be the same again. Years later, Leah takes the modelling world by storm, travelling from Milan to London and New York and living life in the lap of luxury. But her past follows her like a dark shadow, mysteriously intertwined with the tragic tale of two young siblings in Poland during the Second World War. As two generations of secrets threaten to explode, Leah is haunted by a fatal, forgotten prophecy from her past, and must fight to challenge the destiny that has been mapped out for her in the stars... --
Item Description:First published in 1993 as "Hidden beauty" under the pen name Lucinda Edmonds.
Physical Description:vii, 565 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9781035047970
Author Notes:Lucinda Riley was born in 1965 in Ireland. After an early career as an actress in film, theatre, and television, Lucinda wrote her first novel at age twenty-four. Her books have been translated into forty languages and continue to strike an emotional chord with cultures all around the world. Her Seven Sisters series has become a global phenomenon and is currently in development for television. Lucinda's books have been nominated for numerous awards, including the Italian Bancarella Prize, the Lovely Books Award in Germany and the Romantic Novel of the Year Award. In 2020, she received the Dutch Platinum Award for sales over 300,000 copies for a single novel in one year - a prize last won by J. K. Rowling. Though she brought up her four children mostly in Norfolk, England, she fulfilled her dream in 2015 of buying a remote farmhouse in West Cork, Ireland, which she always felt was her spiritual home, and this was where her last five books were written. Lucinda was diagnosed with cancer in 2017 and died on June 11, 2021, surrounded by her family.

Harry Whittaker grew up in the 1990s and spent the first few years of his life on the rural coast of Ireland, with a poor TV signal (and certainly no iPad). It was therefore left to his mother, author Lucinda Riley, to entertain him, which she did through telling him stories. As a result, Harry has become a storyteller himself, as an award-winning radio presenter for the BBC and a member of one of the UK's most renowned improv troupes, who perform all over the UK.

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