The Wildflowers

Synopsis of The Wildflowers

«The Wildflowers» is the family novel by Harriet Evans published by Headline Review in paperback (512 pages, in English).

Cordelia Wilde, daughter of Tony and Althea, two famous, glamorous and controversial actors, narrates her golden childhood in a house by the sea, a refuge that took in her orphaned father. The summer Mads arrives, another abandoned young woman whom the Wildes adopt, changes everything: the past finally catches up with them. Cordelia is a singer without a voice and a daughter without a father.

Contemporary fiction novel originally published in 2018. It was selected as the Richard and Judy book club summer read of 2018.

For readers of family novels with secrets, fans of Jojo Moyes, Maeve Binchy or Kate Morton, and contemporary fiction book clubs.