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The
blurb:
Harriet Evans is the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Place for Us and The Butterfly Summer is her must-share new novel about Keepsake, a house in Cornwall
that comes with a family legacy every bit as full of danger as it is of wonder.
The Butterfly Summer is packed with unexpected plot twists that
will make you gasp out loud and move you to tears - you'll be desperate to add
it to your shelf alongside the best of Santa Montefiore, Jojo Moyes and Kate
Morton.
'Harriet Evans is a
master at creating characters you feel like you know inside out' Heat
What magic is this?
You follow the hidden
creek towards a long-forgotten house.
They call it Keepsake,
a place full of wonder ... and danger. Locked inside the crumbling elegance of
its walls lies the story of the Butterfly Summer, a story you've been waiting
all your life to hear.
This house is Nina
Parr's birthright. It holds the truth about her family - and a chance to put
everything right at last.
Harriet Evans. She brings
you home.
My
Opinion:
*Book
provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review*
The
Butterfly Summer is actually the first book by Harriet Evans I’ve read, which
is quite weird, but I can’t change it. Anyway, let’s start…
This
book tells the story of Nina Parr and especially the young woman discovering
part of her family she has never known. What happened in the past and why is it
all connected to Keepsake a mysterious house in Cornwall?! UT all starts when
Nina meets a woman she doesn’t know in the library. That woman knows her and she
wants Nina to discover her family’s legacy. Nina never knew her dad George Parr,
who died on a jungle expedition. In addition to that she is divorced already,
married at 19 and is now still friends with Sebastian.
Well,
let’s just say she is going through a lot.
I
have to be honest here, it took me quite a while to get into the story, it
seemed slow at first and the moving back and forth in time didn’t really help.
I have to say thought that the more I found out about the Parr family and the
women in the family, the more I got into it and I wanted Nina to figure
everything out.
Harriet
Evans really “brings you home” with this book. The writing is full of emotions,
depth and mystery. I loved how vividly Harriet described all the places,
unfortunately I didn’t feel the same with the story. It was quite clear in the
end, but the way to get there was complicated and stony. The idea behind it all
is fab and I wish I was more gripped, but something was missing for me. I think
clearer connections and a flowing storyline would have helped for me. I guess
that could be quite different for other readers, but that’s how I felt.
I
liked that there were a lot of unforeseen moments and twists in the story. It
was interesting to get to know all these different generations of Parr women
and I really liked the inheritance fact of the story.
Even
if there are some parts that didn’t work for me, I still fell in love with
Harriet’s writing and definitely plan on reading more of her books.
Rating:
My possible cast:
Nina: Michaela McManus
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