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The Lost Lover

Karen Swan author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Published:18th Jul '24

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The Lost Lover is book three in the spellbinding Sunday Times bestselling historical Wild Isle series from Karen Swan.

One secret threatens to change the course of life for Flora MacQueen as she hopes for love and dreams of a life beyond island life. The Lost Lover is third installment in the Wild Isles series from Sunday Times bestselling author Karen Swan.

An epic first love. A second chance . . .

'One of our most prolific and talented writers’ – Santa Montefiore


Young Flora MacQueen has always dreamt of more than life on the small Scottish island of St Kilda. So, when she catches the eye of visiting adventurer and wealthy businessman James Callaghan, her future seems brighter.

Winter seas separate the lovers but the island’s evacuation the following summer promises to reunite them – until tragedy strikes.

Heartbroken and needing to support her family on the mainland, a chance meeting offers hope. Soon Flora is the toast of glamorous Paris; fame and fortune are hers for the taking. But at a high price.

When a scandal erupts back home, she is implicated, along with her friends, Effie and Mhairi. But then a deception comes to light that will change everything . . .

The Lost Lover is Book Three in Karen Swan's bestselling Wild Isle series, following The Last Summer and The Stolen Hours.

A lovely novel which I hugely enjoyed. I envy Karen Swan's skill to evoke a landscape and a very different past so effortlessly. The love story was all that one would wish and the characters are terrific. -- Elizabeth Buchan, author of Against Her Nature
This sweeping love story gripped us from the start, so we can’t wait for the next in the series. Best historical romance. -- Independent on The Last Summer
Meticulously researched and beautifully told by one of our most prolific and talented writers. It contains all the ingredients of a wonderfully satisfying read: love, passion, drama, violence, menace and peril, and characters you fall in love with. -- Santa Montefiore, author of Flappy Investigates on The Last Summer
Immaculately researched and told with the exciting sense of time and place, The Lost Lover once again brings vibrant life to the fascinating island of St Kilda . . . and with another jaw-dropping, trademark cliffhanger leaving Swan’s addicted readers already counting down to the final, thrilling trip to St Kilda, this passion-filled four-book odyssey – with its exhilarating backdrop, core murder mystery, and torrid tales of loves lost and found. * The Lancashire Post *

ISBN: 9781529084467

Dimensions: 241mm x 162mm x 40mm

Weight: 674g

448 pages