Lucinda Riley: An Evening with Harry Whittaker
Long before she became the bestselling author of the Seven Sisters series, Lucinda Riley wrote Hidden Beauty, a standalone novel that has been reworked and given new life as The Hidden Girl by Harry Whittaker, Lucinda’s son and co-author of the record-breaking and international bestselling phenomenon of 2023, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt.
About The Book
Born and raised in a small village on the Yorkshire moors, Leah Thompson grows more beautiful with each passing day.
When she catches the attention of the influential, troubled Delancey family, she knows her life will never be the same again. Years later, Leah has taken the modelling world by storm, and is living in the lap of luxury.
But her past follows her like a dark shadow, mysteriously intertwined with the tragic tale of two young siblings in Poland during the Second World War.
As two generations of secrets threaten to explode, Leah is haunted by a fatal, forgotten prophecy from her past, and must fight to challenge the destiny that has been mapped out for her in the stars . . .
About Harry
Harry Whittaker grew up in the 1990s and spent the first few years of his life on the rural west coast of Ireland. The son of the author Lucinda Riley, Harry became a storyteller himself, as an award-winning radio presenter for the BBC and a member of one of the UK’s most renowned improv troupes. In 2019, Harry and Lucinda co-authored the Guardian Angels series for children – four reassuring, timeless stories addressing worries that a small child may have.
After Lucinda’s death in 2021, it was announced that Harry would complete the Seven Sisters series on behalf of his late mother. Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt was published globally in May 2023.
About Lucinda Riley
Lucinda Riley is the author of The Seven Sisters series, inspired by the constellation of the same name, which has captured readers’ hearts all across the globe, and to date has sold more than 25 million copies worldwide. Lucinda died on 11 June 2021. She had always envisaged an eight-book series, and left detailed notes to tie the series together in a final book, and a wish that her son, Harry Whittaker, take up her mantle. Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt was a record-breaking and international bestselling phenomenon of 2023, with multiple-week #1 bestseller status in the UK, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.