Lucinda Riley

Lucinda Riley (born Edmonds) (1966, Lisburn)[1] is an Irish author of popular historical fiction and a former actress.

Riley spent the first few years of her life in the village of Drumbeg near Belfast before moving to England.[2] At age 14 she moved to London to a specialist drama and ballet school. At 16 she got her first major television role in the BBC adaptation of The Story of the Treasure Seekers, followed shortly afterwards by a memorable guest role in Auf Wiedersehen Pet. She remained a working actress for the next seven years, also marrying, but her career was interrupted by a long bout of mononucleosis at age 23. This caused her to turn to writing, and her first novel Lovers and Players was published in 1992.[2] In 2016 producer Raffaella De Laurentiis purchased the television rights to her six-novel series The Seven Sisters.[1][3]

Filmography

Bibliography

As Lucinda Edmonds

  • Lovers and Players (1992)
  • Hidden Beauty (1993)
  • Enchanted (1994)
  • Not Quite an Angel (1995)
  • Aria (1996)
  • Losing You (1997)
  • Playing With Fire (1998)
  • Seeing Double (2000)

As Lucinda Riley

  • The Orchid House (also known as Hothouse Flower) (2010)
  • The Girl on the Cliff (2011)
  • The Light Behind the Window (also known as The Lavender Garden) (2012)
  • The Midnight Rose (2013)
  • The Angel Tree (2014)
  • The Italian Girl (a rewrite of Aria) (2014)
  • The Olive Tree (also published as Helena's Secret) (2016)
  • The Love Letter (a rewrite of Seeing Double) (2018)
  • The Butterfly Room (2019)

The Seven Sisters Series
  • The Seven Sisters (2014)
  • The Storm Sister (2015)
  • The Shadow Sister (2016)
  • The Pearl Sister (2017)
  • The Moon Sister (2018)
  • The Sun Sister (2019)

References
  1. Stephanie Bell, How Ulster-born author Lucinda Riley, who vowed to shun Hollywood, became the toast of LA after signing huge deal to film her novels for TV, Belfast Telegraph, 14 July 2016
  2. About Lucinda, lucindariley.co.uk
  3. Pam Norfolk, Popular Author Signs Hollywood Deal, Lancashire Evening Post, 29 June 2016
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