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Sea of Lost Love
by Santa Montefiore

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Publisher Comments:

Escape to this bestselling storyteller's world "full of mystery, romance, and suspense"* in this unforgettable and uplifting new novel about family secrets and the triumph of love.

Celestria Montague always spends her summers at Pendrift Hall, the rambling, shabby mansion adorned with wisteria and clematis that has been home to the Montague family for generations. It is 1958, and the family is celebrating her father's fiftieth birthday at a lavish ball. The celebratory night ends in death and tragedy, however, and young Celestria learns that the family may lose Pendrift Hall. Her grandfather urges Celestria to play detective, to solve the mysteries surrounding the night's events, and to save the ancient mansion if at all possible. Her quest takes her to Italy's rugged and beautiful Puglia, and into the dark, cool cloisters of the Convento di Santa Maria del Mare. Here Celestria meets an enigmatic stranger and confronts unwelcome truths about her family — and herself.

Sea of Lost Love is Santa Montefiore at her very best — sensitive, sensual, and complex.

Review:

"A young woman finds love and sudden maturity in this charmingly melodramatic romance from the author of The Gypsy Madonna. Tragedy strikes an upper-class English family at its Cornish manor house in 1958: Robert 'Monty' Montague has vanished, leaving behind a pile of debts, a pair of shoes washed up on the beach, a drifting motorboat bearing his gold pocket watch and a note in a bottle that reads, 'Forgive me.' His spoiled daughter, the impossibly beautiful 21-year-old Celestria, is forced out of her shallow complacency to discover why her father, whom everyone loved and assumed to be so happy, apparently drowned himself. She follows a trail of bank statements to a seaside Italian convent converted into a family-run hotel. There, she encounters Hamish McCloud, a surly Scotsman who loathed Monty and, after a rocky start, develops a very different feeling toward Celestria. The prose is florid and fitting for the ridiculously, deliciously escapist whirlwind romance that envelopes Celestria and Hamish as the over-the-top revelations about Monty come to light." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Synopsis:

The author of "The Last Voyage of the Valentina" returns with the gripping story of a young woman who must face the shocking truths of her family's past, in order to save their ancestral home.
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Laurie Blum, April 22, 2008 (view all comments by Laurie Blum)
As one who lived with a person who had a "double identity" I could truly relate to the story presented in Santa Montefiore's "Sea of Lost Love" which was absolutely not another 'chic lit." The heroine and main character Celestria is jarred into adulthood by her father's untimely death/disappearance in a romantic mystery-filled adventure that takes you from Cornwall, England to Puglia, Italy. Very vivid life-like descriptions - a pleasurable read with a unique story line! I was reminded of novels written by Maeve Binchy and Rosamunde Pilcher.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781416543732
Author:
Montefiore, Santa
Publisher:
Touchstone Books
Subject:
Romance - General
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Romance - Suspense
Subject:
Young women
Subject:
Cornwall (England)
Copyright:
2008
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Publication Date:
May 2008
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
437
Dimensions:
8 x 5.25 in
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