The Olive Tree: The bestselling story of secrets and love under the Cyprus sun

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In 2020 she received the Dutch Platinum award for sales over 300,000 copies for a single novel in one year – an award last won by J K Rowling for Harry Potter. This book is written from a dual perspective, first of all by Helena and secondly from the perspective of her son Alex. Es cierto que ya no vivimos en una época donde los personajes protagónicos tienen que ser siempre moralmente correctos y ninguno lo es, a excepción de los más pequeños. Son de estas novelas que es imposible no sentir, no emocionarse y que me hizo meterme de lleno en sus vidas como un personaje más del libro. ABOUT 'THE OLIVE TREE': Please be aware that in some parts of the world, this book is published under the title 'Helena's Secret'.

Anfangs hatte ich Schwierigkeiten die vielen Personen auseinander zu halten, das wurde im Laufe der Story ein wenig besser.With every rave and every pan, with every excited GIF and every critical assessment, you've helped the Goodreads community get closer to a very important milestone – the 50 Million Reviews mark! When not writing, travelling or running around after her children, she loves reading books that she hasn’t written with a glass or two of Provencal rose! In our lives, there are so many different kinds of love that touch us and affect us everyday – love for a child, for a husband, for a parent, for a friend… All of these are special and valuable in their own way. Helena and William have a Immy but William try’s not to treat Alex any different, but somehow Alex knows there’s more to his biological father than meets the eye. Yet Helena knows that the idyllic beauty of Pandora masks a web of secrets she has kept from William, her husband, and Alex, her son.

Helena sees her first love’s son in the distance and believes that it is Alexis, because his son is the same age as he was when he first met Helena twenty-six years ago. Sprinkle a little drama - because apparently people are not allowed to keep secrets - plus a little pointless jealousy, like in all "good" soap operas, and you have a garbage book that's best fitted for middle-aged divorcees who will never find love again and drown their sorrow in red wine. Me ha gustado mucho la forma en que está contada, transcurre en Pandora, una casa antigua situada en un pueblo de Chipre, entre viñedos y olivos y ha sido muy fácil imaginarlo todo, era como estar viéndolos entrando y saliendo, en la piscina, en la playa, etc. Probabil că dacă nu m-ar fi atras atât de mult coperta cărții nu i-aș mai fi acordat nici măcar această a doua șansă. ABOUT ‘THE OLIVE TREE’: Please be aware that in some parts of the world, this book is published under the title ‘Helena’s Secret’.

Between them they also have a son and a daughter, Helena goes ahead to Cyprus with Alex and little by little secrets are starting to unfold. Simpaticno, toplo, zanimljivo, uz likove o kojima bi voljela citati i dalje, ovaj me roman bas zabavio.

The characters are so stereotypical that I just wanted to burn them with the fire of a thousand suns. Al igual que ella, está bien que Alex pase por lo mismo, que entienda que en ocasiones decir la verdad no es nada fácil y sus consecuencias.

Lucinda mentions in the acknowledgements that this was a book that she first started writing 10 years ago while on a family holiday and then she left it but last year discovered a draft in her desk and decided to rework it.

Both Helena and Alex know that life will never be the same, once Pandora’s secrets have been revealed. Alex is a boy of rare high intelligence at 13 he is clever and perceptive beyond his years, this becomes more apparent later on in the book. This story goes beyond a family holiday merely it is the trigger which brings characters and situations together and presents them with no other option but to confront what they have been internally battling and somehow deal with the repercussions. Alex feels he is inching ever closer to the truth and now is the time when Helena can't keep things secret any more.To complicate matters their family friends are coming to stay with them and Alex can't stand their son who is only 4 months older than him.