Also on the list of NZ's top 100 reads, this is the first novel in a series about seven sisters, although there are actually only 6 novels. Now young women, they were all adopted by an extremely wealthy philanthropic man, and brought up on an island on Lake Geneva. In this novel, the sisters , now adult and living around the world, are together again on the island, their father having recently died. He has left each woman a letter with the latitude/longitude coordinates of the place in the world they were born in, so they can explore for themselves where they came from. First up is eldest daughter Maia, who finds out she was born in Rio de Janeiro. Off she goes in search of who she is. We immediately jump into 1920s Rio de Janeiro high society, her great grandmother Izabella being a stroppy teenage girl, rejecting her father's arranged marriage plans to cement his place in Rio's social circles. Moving between Paris and Rio, the story of where Maia comes from is told. Wonderfully romantic, lots of history, beautiful people falling in love, it really is quite gorgeous to read, certainly setting the scene for the next novel in the series.
The Moon Sister, number 5 in the series, was published in time for Xmas 2018, which is when I first heard of these books. The last one,
The Sun Sister, is due for publication 31/10 and it will fly off the shelves, just in time for Xmas and summer holidays.
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