The Wildflowers: The unputdownable and emotional bestseller about family secrets

Harriet Evans

Feb 2018 · Hachette UK

About this eBook

'I adored The Wildflowers. A sweeping, epic, moving read' MARIAN KEYES

A RICHARD AND JUDY SUMMER BOOK CLUB PICK

Turn the page and find yourself in a Dorset beach house, the sun in your eyes and the sand between your toes. This is the home of Tony and Althea Wilde - the Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor of their generation and with a marriage every bit as stormy. A gorgeous, epic tale of tangled family secrets and lies . . .

'A wonderful, engrossing novel, full of the most vivid characters and a truly memorable setting. A triumph' SOPHIE KINSELLA

'She reels you in and then you're hooked, right to the last page' PATRICIA SCANLAN

'Atmospheric and altogether wonderful' LESLEY PEARCE

'Her characters are finely drawn and as the story hops back and forth from the Second World War to the present day, the reader becomes deeply immersed in this charismatic family's fortunes. The result is that rare and lovely thing, an all-engaging and all-consuming drama' DAILY MAIL
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Tony and Althea Wilde. Glamorous, argumentative . . . adulterous to the core.

They were my parents, actors known by everyone. They gave our lives love and colour in a house by the sea - the house that sheltered my orphaned father when he was a boy.

But the summer Mads arrived changed everything. She too had been abandoned and my father understood why. We Wildflowers took her in.

My father was my hero, he gave us a golden childhood, but the past was always going to catch up with him ... it comes for us all, sooner or later.

This is my story. I am Cordelia Wilde. A singer without a voice. A daughter without a father. Let me take you inside.
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What readers love about THE WILDFLOWERS:

'A fabulous dysfunctional family saga which had me gripped all the way through' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'I love this book. It is so well written you feel you are there in the beach house smelling the sea, watching them having fun, arguing, falling in love. Magical but realistic enough to be gritty and heartbreaking' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐


'Golden summer days of playing games and having fun are mingled with the reality of complex relationships by the adults. This was a really great read' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Ratings and reviews

Best book ive read so far this year....stirred lots of warm childhood memories for me of golden hazy days by the beach.....the storyline was engrossing....full of secrets..i loved how time went back and forth....sad in places, felt i knew the chatacters really well....such a good read

About the author

Harriet Evans has sold over a million copies of her books. She is the author of fifteen bestselling novels including The Stargazers, The Beloved Girls, a Richard and Judy Book Club Selection and the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller The Garden of Lost and Found, which won Good Housekeeping's Book of the Year. She used to work in publishing and now writes full time. She volunteers with Inspiring the Future, is an ambassador for the London Library and has been elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. She lives in Bath with her family.