The Last Secret of the Deverills: Family secrets and enduring love - from the Number One bestselling author (The Deverill Chronicles 3)

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Escape Rating B+: I’ve been looking forward to this one for almost a year, since I finished The Daughters of Ireland and just knew that there had to be more to the story. I was not disappointed. Martha Wallace came to Dublin from her home in America to find her birth mother. But instead she has lost her heart to the impossibly charming JP Deverill. Then she discovers that her mother comes from the same place as JP, and her fate seems sealed. In the green hills of West Cork, Ireland, Castle Deverill has burned to the ground. But young Celia Deverill is determined to see her ruined ancestral homerestoredto its former glory — to the years when Celia ran through its vast halls with her cousin Kitty and their childhood friend Bridie Doyle.

Heerlijk om terug haar verhaal te lezen, hoe mooi ze de dingen omschrijft gaande van de natuur, flora en fauna, tot de diepste gevoelens van de personages. Doordat ze dit zo vakkundig aan de dag legt voel je je verbonden met alle personages; hun lief en leed, hun geheimen en hun angsten. Je wordt door haar prachtige schrijfstijl ondergedompeld en je voelt als het ware de liefde die allen hebben voor hun teerbeminde Ierland. Alle personages worden als een magneet terug getrokken naar Ballinakelly waar ze hun jeugdjaren hebben doorgebracht. Het kasteel speelt een belangrijke rol in hun levens. Sigh. I'm actually rather bummed that my journey with the Deverills is over. Even though the book did what I feared and wrapped some things up easier and neater than I would like, some of the ending parts were satisfying and I think I'm going to have a bit of a book hangover from this trilogy. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. I already miss the beautifully descriptive, emotion-evoking writing and the vivid pictures of Ireland and London that Montefiore provides throughout the book. Even though I had to cudgel my brain to recall who belonged to whom, and more importantly who betrayed whom, this was a great wrap to an excellent series. What I loved is the way that all of the loose ends got tied up, even the one with the castle ghosts, and that it didn’t feel rushed or overly predictable. Like I said before, there is definitely a soap opera quality to the book as there is a lot of sleeping around, secrets, illegitimate children, love, betrayal, murder, etc. which make it an entertaining read. And when you add in an Irish castle as a setting, well how could I not love that? The story does bounce around quite a bit from character to character but for me the heart of the book was the story lines of JP and Martha. Definitely recommend especially if you are a fan of fiction from this time period and setting. I just loved this series, but could not continue as my library was closed do to COVID 19. I found that I could borrow an audio copy of this wonderful book from Overdrive. I have never read a audiobook and had no desire to do so.Santa heeft een fenomenale trilogie geschreven met alle nodige ingrediënten. Liefde, haat en nog meer van die rauwe emoties. Het is geen zoetsappig verhaal want ze heeft er veel intriges ingesloten. En ook hier hunkert iedereen naar het verleden en konden ze de klok maar terugdraaien! De tijd heeft vat op hen gekregen en ze moeten allen vergiffenis zoeken. Niemand blijft ongestraft in dit verhaal, niemand is vrij van schuld! Het is niet alleen fictie die je leest maar in dit verhaal zitten levenslessen waar je zelf bij stil staat. Het is een stormachtig relaas dat zich afspeelt in het ruige maar oh zo mooie Ierland. This is the third novel of the Deverill Chronicles. This saga actually begins in 1600’s when Maggie O’Leary puts a curse on the Deverills. Apparently the Deverill’s decided to build a castle on O’Leary land. Peace has flourished since the Great War ended, but much has changed for the Deverill family as now a new generation is waiting in the wings to make their mark. Martha llega decidida a encontrar a su verdadera madre y los motivos que esta tuvo para darla en adopción, solo que el camino es un rosal con espinas. Medan den yngre generationen börjar ta över, lever de tidigare fortfarande fast i den gamla förbannelsen över släkten Deverill. Ska de någonsin få vila i frid?

Como es costumbre, esta ocasión le toca el protagonismo a Birdie, quien ahora casada con el Conde di Marcantonio , junto a su hijo se trasladan a Irlanda , ahora dueña y señora del castillo de Deverill. In The Girl in the Castle those events were the Easter Rising and the Irish War of Independence, as the Anglo-Irish Deverills found themselves on both sides of the Rising, while trusted, in the end, by neither. In this second book, The Daughters of Ireland, the action has moved from the tragedies of the immediate post-WWI period to the next great upheaval – the Depression. And the clouds of WW2 are already gathering on the horizon. The fate of those two children, and the secrets that surround their birth and adoptions, all come screaming out of the woodwork when they grow up, with consequences that affect the lives of everyone around them. The scabs and scars that have been crusted over for decades are laid bare, but the truth does set many free – even as it dooms others.Those young girls were Kitty Deverill, her cousin Celia Deverill, and Bridie Doyle, the daughter of the castle’s cook. In spite of differences in class and religion, at the very beginning those little girls were fast friends. But time and betrayal separated them, and they went their very separate ways. Although parts of the story follow Kitty’s and Bridie’s perspectives, this is Celia’s story. At the beginning, she is not a particularly sympathetic character. She’s not nasty, she’s just selfish, self-centered, and self-indulgent. The universe revolves around her, and her husband and father have both conspired to keep her in a very well-upholstered little bubble. Instead, the conclusions felt right and proper. While this isn’t epic fantasy, and therefore not about an epic battle of good and evil, it still felt like the characters who deserved happy endings finally got theirs, while those who had more red on their ledgers got what was coming to them. De geruchtenmolen komt op gang dat er oorlog op komst is. Voor JP is dit een godsgeschenk, het is zijn manier om al zijn ellende te kunnen vergeten. Ook Celia keert terug na jaren in Zuid-Afrika te hebben gewoond. Samen met haar familie probeert ze weer een rustig bestaan op te bouwen in deze turbulente periode. Verdriet heeft de bovenhand met alle personages. Komt dit ooit nog goed en hoe zit het nu met de vloek van Maggie O’Leary??

El inicio de La Segunda Guerra mundial aderezara la historia, trayendo consigo momentos de tristeza y tensión . The Last Secret of the Deverills is the third and last novel in Santa Montefiore's Deverill trilogy. Spanning the course of at least 100 years we follow the Deverill family and all there chaotic wrong doings during England and Ireland's political disputes. We follow young Kitty from an infant all the way up to a mature lady. Despite all the atrocious life choices this family make, I swiftly fell in love with each and every character making this a very engaging read.

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International sensation Santa Montefiore presents the first book in a trilogy that follows three Irish women through the decades of the twentieth century—perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Hazel Gaynor. Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!” I’ve always thought this was Shakespeare, but it was actually Sir Walter Scott. Readers who loved Downton Abbey, especially the subplot involving Tom the Irish chauffeur, will find much that strikes the same chord. We begin this sequel in 1939 with Martha Wallace who is coming from America to find her birth mother. Martha was adopted as an infant and went to America with her happy parents. What secrets she will discover.

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR - be swept away by the Deverill Chronicles. Bridie die nu gehuwd is met de flamboyante Cesare, graaf Di Marcantonio, is nu al een week in Ballinakelly. Haar grootmoeder komt te overlijden en haar broer Sean en zijn gezin trekken in het kasteel. Bridie heeft een zoontje en het zou voor hem ook leuk zijn om met zijn neefjes en nichtje op te trekken. Maar Bridie heeft het meeste verdriet om haar andere zoon. Bridie haatte Kitty, ze is verbitterd, heeft pijn en het geheim vreet aan haar. Haar echtgenoot eist dat er een zomerbal plaats vindt en Lady Rowan-Hampton is maar al te graag bereid om Bridie te helpen. Maar Grace kennende heeft zij ook weer een dubbele agenda! En is Bridie wel gelukkig nu ze het kasteel in haar bezit heeft? Verloochent ze niet haar afkomst? Denna bok skulle vara den sista och avslutande delen i sviten om Deverill, men vad jag förstår är det ytterligare två på gång. Längtar redan! This saga is beautifully written. I couldn’t stop listening to it and will miss the wonderful Irish voices.

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Sin dejar a lado el lado místico de la triologia, se retoman los personajes de Maggie O'Leary y de Barton Deverill, así como en la maldición que ella misma lanzó a esta familia. When Martha Wallace leaves her home in America to search for her birth mother in Dublin, she never imagines that she will completely lose her heart to the impossibly charming JP Deverill. But more surprises are in store for her after she discovers that her mother comes from the same place as JP, sealing her fate.