What is Santa Montefiore reading?

Featured at Writers Read: Santa Montefiore, author of The Daughters of Ireland.

Her entry begins:

Edith Wharton’s The Buccaneers. I have read Age of Innocence and House of Mirth, which are two of my favourite novels of all time, so I have decided to read some of her other works. I have downloaded her entire collection onto my kindle and have started The Buccaneers. I adore Wharton’s prose, it’s witty and ironic and beautiful. She’s just a truly gifted writer! I love the way she draws the characters. I feel I know them and their thoughts and really feel for them. I also love the settings and the era. The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls who set out to marry English aristocrats. It’s about morals held by fashionable society of the time that considered it better to marry for status rather than romantic love. Wharton’s powers...[read on]

About The Daughters of Ireland, from the publisher:

Ireland. 1925.

The war is over. But life will never be the same...

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 home restored to its former glory — to the years when Celia ran through its vast halls with her cousin Kitty and their childhood friend Bridie Doyle.

Kitty herself is raising a young family, but she longs for Jack O’Leary — the long-ago sweetheart she cannot have. And soon Kitty must make a heartbreaking decision, one that could destroy everything she holds dear.

Bridie, once a cook's daughter in Castle Deverill, is now a well-heeled New York City socialite. Yet her celebrity can't erase a past act that haunts her still. Nor can it keep her from seeking revenge upon the woman who wronged her all those years ago.

As these three daughters of Ireland seek to make their way in a world once again beset by dark forces, Santa Montefiore shows us once more why she is one of the best-loved storytellers at work today.

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