The Light Behind The Window: A breathtaking story of love and war from the bestselling author of The Seven Sisters series

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Okay, fine; that doesn't really work because the black market wasn't just a place you could swan into and pick up whatever you liked, so even then there would still be shortages and I imagine you'd want to save what you did find for the dangerous Nazis who think you are on their side and need to be pampered, but fine.

While I liked The Orchid House and The Girl on the Cliff better than The Lavender Garden, this was still an entertaining and exciting story.Constance chooses to fight and finds herself placed in the most extraordinary position in the house of Edouard de la Martinieres. Riley is talented, delighting in the small details of aristocratic luxury and the pastoral countryside .

Sebastian's family had some connection to Emilie's chateau and vineyard, and the winemakers on the estate knew what that connection was. I know this is fiction and heaven knows I am not a very big fan of "gritty" realism, but there does have to be some detail to evoke a sense of reality and place. The mother dies at the start and Emilie, who has 'rebelled' by abandoning the social life and becoming a vet, is left with a huge chateau on her hands. It had so many coincidences and connections it was worthy of Dickens, and though some of them weren't way off, they felt it. I can't say enough good things about this book - I couldn't stop listening and finished it in record time, wishing it hadn't ended!You can barely see any sort of personality except for a few traits and even with those the authors seems to feel the need to divide the characters either into 'bad' or 'good'. What woman intelligent enough to be a veterinarian and who has made a practice of being independent is going to open her home and heart to the first handsome man who walks up to her after she very publicly inherits a fortune?

Only 20 pages in and I found the following: daughter hates mom but loves her dad, mom disapproves of daughter’s lifestyle, basic and stupid French stereotypes (foofy little dog, obsession with wine, aristocracy, etc.The present Emilie de la Martini res has always fought against her aristocratic background, but after the death of her glamorous, distant mother, she finds herself alone in the world and sole inheritor of her grand childhood home in the south of France.

I’d never heard of the book before, it wasn’t on my radar, however the description on the back of the book sounded interesting so I spent the 50¢ and bought it. The author has a skill in drawing you right into the characters lives so much so that you experience all that they do and just as you think you know the outcome or the next stage in their development, it is shifted again.But, did Sebastian suddenly appear and help Emilie because of the family connection or because he was interested in the valuable paintings inside her estates and most of all her family inheritance? Being in a beautiful chateau with a vineyard, being in Paris and a small French village, being in an English castle, and being with characters you definitely will bond with made the book even more appealing. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the topic whether a fan of Lucinda Riley's or not. I was completely taken in by the story, I loved the story and will be passing it onto my Nan so she can read it (When it arrived in the post she was instantly eyeing it up! Als Emilie allein mit dem Erbe ihrer Mutter dasteht und überlegt was sie damit machen möchte geht sie zurück in das Chateau ihrer Familie.