Four sisters. A house with a past. One secret summer.

When fifteen-year-old Margot Wilde and her three sisters arrive at Applecote Manor in June 1959, they expect a quiet English country summer. Instead, they find their aunt and uncle still reeling from the disappearance of their daughter, Audrey, five years before. As the arrival of two handsome neighbors divides the sisters' loyalties, Margot is drawn into the life Audrey left behind and the mystery of her vanishing. Fifty years later, Jessie is desperate to move her family out of their London home, and gorgeous Applecote Manor seems like the perfect solution. But once there, Jessie finds herself increasingly isolated, at odds with her fifteen-year-old stepdaughter, and haunted by the strange rumors that surround the manor. Rich with heat and angst, in The Wildling Sisters the thrill of first love clashes with the bonds of sisterhood, taking readers on a breathless journey into the darkest secrets of the human heart.

I am a bit torn about this one. There was a moment in the middle of the book where I wanted to stop reading. The relationship between Jessie and Bella was just too depressing. Might be me, but I really don't like these stepmother-stepdaughter fights and troubles. ( Which just reminds me that I haven't yet stumbled across a book where there is a stepmother - stepson problem!)
Anyway - I preferred the "older" story even though I had an uneasy feeling when it came to the relationship between Sybil and Margot.
Whereas the "modern" story was a bit too much, too many things going wrong ( I mean, Will and Jessie go on a date for the first time in a long time and then "this" happens???).
But - thankfully - the ending left me feeling mollified...

Now it's a ray:

1. T_richardson_x (UK/?)
2. penelopewanders (CH/EU)

Sorry for the delay in journaling! Book is with me, and I'm a third of the way through :)

The book is ready to travel!

I had the weirdest sense of Deja Vu reading this... it felt oddly familiar. And then I realized I'd read the author's previous novel last year, and just like that one, I had very little interest in the modern part of the story- and the convergence of the two plots at the end felt equally rushed and disappointing... I did enjoy the 1950's sections, so that kept me reading.

Thank you for sharing!

This has arrived safely in France. I see I'm at the end of the ray so might let this sit for a while before picking it up. From the back blurb it looks like it's a good book to read in a country house. Thanks so much for making this available and for sending.

This is here apparently as the end of a bookray. I didn't end up reading it in a country house after all...
The shuffling between two time periods works fairly well here, as does the merging at the end. At the beginning I had a hard time connecting with this book - I was not really in the mood for the moods and atmosphere, but eventually I was drawn in. Jessie's fertile imagination and insecurities feel realistic and understandable. The end, at least for the Tucker family, wraps things a bit too sweetly, but I am willing to take that ending. Harry's the one I most feel sorry for, at the end of the day.
If this is meant to travel on or go back home, please let me know.
Meanwhile, thanks for making it available.

Having been moved from Switzerland to France, this now travels to the USA thanks to bookmooch.

bookmooch friend sent it to me.