The Sun Sister is a sweeping historical and family novel by Lucinda Riley, the sixth book in The Seven Sisters series, following Electra D’Aplièse as she confronts fame, grief, addiction and the unanswered questions surrounding her origins. To the outside world Electra is a successful New York model with wealth, beauty and recognition, but the death of her adoptive father, Pa Salt, exposes how fragile her life has become. When a stranger claiming to be her grandmother reaches out, the story opens into another timeline: Kenya in 1939, where Cecily Huntley-Morgan arrives from New York and becomes entangled in love, war, colonial society and the world of the Maasai. Moving between Manhattan and East Africa, the novel explores identity, inheritance, family secrets and the difficult work of discovering who you are when the story you were given is no longer enough.
Author: Lucinda Riley
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Year of publication: 2020
Number of pages: 848
Original language: English