The Invitation

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Stella is with her husband who is an investor for the film. Hal is on the yacht to do a story. Hal did not know that Stella was married. Oh no! The Invitation is an epic love story that will transport you from the glamour of the Italian Riviera, to the darkness of war-torn Spain, and to a golden - if rather haunted - time. Perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Victoria Hislop.

The thing that unifies this crowd, across nationalities, is the same thing that gave that initial impression of beauty. They are all of a type.But a year later they are unexpectedly thrown together, after Hal receives an invitation he cannot resist. An Italian Contessa asks him to assist on a trip of a lifetime -- acting as a reporter on a tremendous yacht, skimming its way along the Italian coast toward Cannes film festival, the most famous artists and movie stars of the day gathered to promote a new film.

And then someone turns up dead. Who didn’t wish the happy couple well? And perhaps more important, why? ( From the publisher.) People do not come to Rome for work. There is always something more that drives them: love, escape, the hope of a new life. Which is it?’ An unashamedly romantic novel that swept me away to a glamorous period and luxurious locations. Lucy Foley shows a sharp eye for detailed and well-researched description...Thank you for sending it to me.’ I dislike the structure of third-person narration that allows the reader to know all the character's thoughts EXCEPT when the author wants to strategically keep a secret from the reader (e.g., "It reminded him of that one traumatic afternoon he spent at the sea with his father, a point that is hugely important to the story that's unfolding, but he didn't want to think about that now, tra la la"). I get that this is how you structure a book so it has something that keeps your audience reading and wondering, but too often this setup of making a reader want/need to find out what some big secret is turns out to be the *only* momentum the book has, and that's disappointing. Now, characters who need to find out the secrets of other characters? Fine. Stories in which characters need to solve mysteries for themselves? Great (especially if those mysteries are *about* themselves). Stories with no secrets at all? Even better. (Not everything needs to have a mystery or a twist!) But this false way of selective revelation and teasing is almost always off-putting to me. a b Weiss, Keely (2 July 2020). "16 Thriller Books That'll Give You Instant Goosebumps". Harper's BAZAAR . Retrieved 27 December 2021.

They’re not women,’ he says to Fede, watching as the trio explodes into sudden laughter. ‘They’re girls. They’re schoolgirls playing truant.’ Lucy Foley studied English literature at Durham University and University College London. She then worked for several years as a fiction editor, during which time she wrote The Book of Lost and Found. Lucy now writes full-time and is busy traveling (for research, naturally!), painting, and working on her next novel. Set in the film world of 1950s along the Italian Riviera, author Lucy Foley sweeps readers up into a world of luxury at the Cannes Film Festival. THE INVITATION is a riveting, dazzling romance, set in the most beautiful places on earth. I wanted to go wherever Lucy Foley took me.” — Anton DiSclafani, New York Times-bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls and The After Party Historical novelist Foley (The Invitation) makes an auspicious thriller debut. Nine close friends, four of them couples, gather for their extravagant annual New Year’s getaway—this time at Continue reading »