Her son from a previous relationship Alex has never known the identity of his father and neither does her husband. As Helena and her family arrive for their extended summer holiday will Pandora's box open and spill forth secrets that Helena has kept to herself for so many years for fear of causing so much upset and upheaval or will the box remain closed?

When I picked this book up the cover really drew me in, maybe it’s the massive olive tree in the centre, where the sky meets the sea, or maybe it’s the stone steps leading up to the tree, it almost like your they’re walking up the path! Yet Helena knows that the idyllic beauty of Pandora masks a web of secrets she has kept from William, her husband, and Alex, her son. Although much of the plot and the characters are of course fictional, there is no doubt that this is the closest I’ve come to drawing from my own life experience of being a mother, stepmother, wife, and trained dancer. This was a brave step for the author to do as she has become synonymous for her historical fiction and the current series she is working on.Admittedly it took me a while to settle into the story as I kept looking for the flashbacks to the past entwined with solving the mystery in the present but then I began to ease into the story and really this is just as good as anything Lucinda has written before. I wouldn't have wanted my husbands best friends family foisted on me when I am on my own personal family holiday. Apart from the fairly complicated relationship issues this story painted a picture of family holiday life which many people will recognise and in a lovely setting. Lucinda Riley was born in Ireland and after an early career as an actress in film, theatre and television, wrote her first book aged twenty-four.

Am iertat-o pentru căderea mea în păcat pentru că am găsit în spatele ei o poveste care m-a fermecat. The fact that all the men and all the women abide by these dynamics throughout the whole novel makes the characters feel flat and therefore, extremely uninteresting. Die Geschichte itself konnte mich nicht richtig faszinieren aber ich bin überzeugt, dass das nächste Buch wieder sehr gut wird . And if they weren't then I doubt humanity would still be around, because, as my mother so wisely said to me - we have been granted the innate gift of hope. When I first looked back at the original manuscript, I realised that, although my children are ten years older now, the book was a journal of their childhood, frozen in time.

I am still overwhelmed at the fact that the German edition, ‘ Helenas Geheimnis’, was at number one on the bestseller list for seven weeks! En conclusión un gran descubrimiento con el libro, la autora y con una historia familiar de secretos, drama, pero sobre todo con ese amor familiar que es el lazo mas fuerte que existe y con un final que aunque fue muy bello me supo a poco ya que disfrute tanto de este libro que quería saber mas de estos personajes, sobre todo de Alex de adulto.

Als erstes muss ich sagen, dass ich ein riesen Riley Fan bin und bis jetzt jedes Buch gelesen, nein sogar verschlungen habe. Sacha, Julie and their children Rupes and Viola weren't the nicest of people and I wondered were they token characters we were supposed to dislike from the outset but as I have mentioned every character needs to be kept an eye on. It all started in Cyprus for Helena, as a teenager she fell in love for the first time and Helena used to have holidays there then it all stopped until her Godfather passes and leaves her his house affectionately named “Pandora” in his will. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Esta historia está llena de historias, se hacen algún guiños a algún que otro libro, como por ejemplo: "Lejos del mundanal ruido" y "Peter Pan".Lo empecé a leer para el club de lectura de La sociedad literaria pero, leídas 100 páginas no he podido con él. Alex is a boy of rare high intelligence at 13 he is clever and perceptive beyond his years, this becomes more apparent later on in the book.

I'll be honest I was apprehensive that I wouldn't enjoy this book as much simply because it didn't have the historical element and I wasn't sure how she would approach a more modern story.I've read mixed reviews and some note that this might be one of Riley's weakest, so I do very hope that's the case. Groups I belong to and participate in on Goodreads include: The Mystery, Crime and Thriller Group; Mysteries and Crime Thrillers; Psychological Thrillers; Reading for Pleasure; Crime Detective Mystery Thrillers; English Mysteries; Dead Good Crime; Kindle English Mystery, All About Books and NZ Readers. Me ha encantado su visión de las cosas, es un niño superdotado, pero a pesar de ello, no deja de ser un niño y tener 13 años, maduro para algunas cosas, pero para otras se ve su inocencia, su sarcasmo y tiene sentido del humor.