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Lucinda Riley Audiobooks

The Sun Sister continues The Seven Sisters, historical fiction written to be lived in

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The Seven Sisters · 1 book

Who is Lucinda Riley?

Lucinda Riley, born Lucinda Edmonds in 1965, was a Northern Irish author of popular historical fiction whose books reached a very wide readership. Writing was her second act: she began her working life as an actress and ballet dancer, and readers often sense that performer’s training in the sweep and pacing of her stories.

She died in June 2021, a loss keenly felt by her readers, but her novels continue to find new audiences – the surest sign of a storyteller whose appeal was never tied to fashion. Her reputation rests on doing a well-loved genre properly: history, emotion and escape, delivered with total commitment.

Lucinda Riley in audiobooks

Popular historical fiction is one of the natural homes of the audiobook – immersive, emotional and built for long stretches in a character’s company – and Riley wrote exactly the kind of sweeping stories the format loves. The Sun Sister, her title in our catalogue, is a generous, involving listen: the sort of audiobook you find yourself rationing because you do not want it to end.

For UK listeners new to her work, it makes a fine introduction. Riley’s years as an actress and dancer left her with a performer’s feel for rhythm, drama and timing, and that instinct translates into storytelling a narrator can really work with.