The Storm Sister (The Seven Sisters, 2)

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To reflect this for a modern audience, I made Ally a brave, strong woman who knows her mind and is a natural leader.

Doch gleichzeitig gibt es hier so viel mehr zu erfahren und zu erleben, denn Musik spielt hier eine tragende Rolle und das hat Lucinda Riley für mein Empfinden ganz wunderbar mit der Liebe zum Meer, zum Wasser und der Tragik des Schicksals miteinander vereint. Ally D’Apliese is about to compete in one of the world’s most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father’s sudden, mysterious death. Luckily, he was a prolific diarist and correspondent and there’s nothing better than reading the words that those historical figures have actually written.

It was only when I set to work on Ally’s story that I actually realized the challenge I’d set myself in writing such a vast, complex series. Maybe it's because my family sails but Theo's death which was probably supposed to make me sad actually make me fucking livid. There, Ally begins to discover her roots – and how her story is inextricably bound to that of a young unknown singer, Anna Landvik, who lived there over a hundred years before, and sang in the first performance of Grieg’s iconic music set to Ibsen’s play ‘Peer Gynt’. This story is predominantly set in Norway during the late 1800s, as well as present day, and is told from two different perspectives, Ally, a young sailor who journeys to Scandinavia to unravel the mystery surrounding her ancestry after suffering heartbreaking tragedies; and Anna a country girl with an angelic voice that at times was not only a blessing but a curse. And each and every location, especially Norway, is vividly painted into the pages of this book by the author.

I also met Henning Malsnes at the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, who explained the way an orchestra is managed on a day-to-day level, as well as the orchestra’s wartime history. As you would expect, the innocence of the inexperienced woman causes more than a few bumps in Anna’s road to singing success, and her life journey takes her across Europe to Leipzig and living in the world of famous composer Edvard Grieg. I liked that Ally actually found living blood relatives and how she started to build three-dimensional relationships with them. In this novel, we delve into the past of a blossoming singer, Anna, from pastoral Norway who is recruited to become the ghost voice for the premier production of Grieg's Peer Gynt.

So Alcyone (Ali), the "Sister of the Wind", from childhood had a penchant for music lessons and excellent musical abilities, but no less loved to sail. Ally D'Apliese is about to compete in one of the world's most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father's sudden, mysterious death. For me, this has always been a matter of personal preference, but I'm still not warming up to her writing style and I don't think I will. But with her life now turned upside down, Ally decides to leave the open seas and follow the trail that her father left her, which leads her to the icy beauty of Norway .

This company has been the publisher of Edvard Grieg’s music since it was written over a hundred years ago.

Some characters in the book are drawn straight from the pages of the world history, but the stories going in and around their lives are mostly fictional! Ally D'Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world's most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father's sudden, mysterious death.

The clue takes her to Norway and to the story of Anna Landvik, a talented singer who lived one hundred years ago. Some of the conversations between characters sometimes don’t feel genuine- not sure people would really speak like that especially the male characters, but overall enjoyable.He was controlling, pushing for too much commitment too soon and actually admitted to Ally that he believed his choices were more important than her fears but his fears were more important than her choices.