Let’s Go to The Butterfly Room Together!
You are invited to the Summer 2020 Bookmovement Group Read &
Giveaway! 100 people will win a free e-book of THE BUTTERFLY ROOM before it is even published then we’ll all Zoom together Tuesday August 25th to discuss the book! This is a 7 Day giveaway–so enter ASAP!
Want to read it with your friends? Share this with them! Tell them we’re going to the English countryside and seaside together.
Destination: The english Countryside & Seaside
HOW IT WORKS:
- Enter to Win the E-Book Giveaway by Tuesday, July 21st
- Winners will be announced on this page and in our newsletter Tuesday, July 21st, the day the book is published–so people who did not win can pick up a copy of the book
- Zoom with Us on Tuesday, August 25th at 7PM ET – RSVP HERE
I was racking my brain trying to figure out how we could celebrate our group read–should I buy butterfly wings like the children in China who use them to social distance?
Dust off my butterfly net, like the one Nabokov has?
Get a butterfly tattoo?
Then I realized: Instagram filters! and…I also created a Butterfly Room all of our own on Pinterest.
#Butterflyroombookclub Photo Contest
So pick up your butterfly from the board and save as many as you want to your photos–and we’ll have a #butterflyroombookclub photo contest on Instagram. Post your butterfly related images–or images with the ebook, tag @bookmovement and use the hashtag #butterflyroombookclub and the winner will receive a $25 gift card to the indie bookstore of their choice.
About the Book
Full of her trademark mix of unforgettable characters and heart-breaking secrets, The Butterfly Room is a spellbinding, second-chance-at-love story from #1 International bestseller Lucinda Riley.
Posy Montague is approaching her seventieth birthday. Still living in her beautiful family home, Admiral House, set in the glorious Suffolk countryside where she spent her own idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and raised her own children, Posy knows she must make an agonizing decision. Despite the memories the house holds, and the exquisite garden she has spent twenty-five years creating, the house is crumbling around her, and Posy knows the time has come to sell it. Then a face appears from the past – Freddie, her first love, who abandoned her and left her heartbroken fifty years ago. Already struggling to cope with her son Sam’s inept business dealings, and the sudden reappearance of her younger son Nick after ten years in Australia, Posy is reluctant to trust in Freddie’s renewed affection. And unbeknown to Posy, Freddie – and Admiral House – have a devastating secret to reveal…
A Richard & Judy Book Club Pick -in the UK!
THE BUTTERFLY ROOM was a Richard & Judy Book Club Selection (THE Book club in the UK) when it was published in the UK–a very big deal. Here’s what Richard & Judy said:
Richard: “I loved it from the first page. The opening chapter is set in June 1943, where we find ourselves watching a poignant, almost painful, relationship between father and daughter Lawrence and Posy.
Lawrence is a Spitfire pilot, home on leave while he recovers from injuries suffered when he was shot down. ‘Home’ is a bit of an understatement: Lawrence is lord of all he surveys at Admiral House just outside Southwold in Suffolk. The house and grounds are what may pass for a country estate; a gorgeous rural dwelling surrounded by woodland, parkland and meadows. The war that has brought Lawrence so low – temporarily – seems a world away. He spends his days of recovery searching for rare butterflies with his ‘darling girl’, daughter Posy. Her mother tolerates their companionship with a tight smile and barbed comments. She is French, her own country writhing under the Nazi jackboot, and the tension in Admiral House is palpable.
Riley’s description of a summer spent in idle pursuits while the world outside the estate’s gates writhes and burns and suffers is beautifully drawn. She had me from page one. She had me to the end. A stunning, sophisticated, stupendous saga.
Judy: “The Butterfly Room is a real Forsythe Saga of a novel; layered, complex, fascinating and, in the end, deeply satisfying. Put your feet up, settle back, and enjoy.”