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What Happened To Monday (2017) : Movie Plot Ending Explained

Tommy Wirkola brings us What Happened To Monday which has Noomi Rapace starring in seven roles. The seven of them are sisters, identical septuplets. What Happened To Monday (or Seven Sisters) is a Science Fiction film set in a dystopian future where people are forced to have just one child per family because of limited resources. While much of the film is not complicated, the characters do get a little muddled. Do give it a watch. Here’s the plot and ending of the film What Happened To Monday explained, spoilers ahead.

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• – Plot Explained
• – One Child Only
• – Nicolette’s Scheme
• – Terrence Settman
• – Losing The Finger
• – Monday’s Story
• – Pregnancy
• – Who is Jerry?
• – Tuesday Abducted
• – Sunday Dies
• – Wednesday on the run
• – Adrian and Saturday
• – Wednesday Dies
• – Saturday Dies
• – Friday Dies
• – What Happened To Monday: Recap
• – Adrian helps Thursday
• – Thursday sees the truth
• – Ending Explained
• – Monday Dies
• – The Truth Is Revealed
• – Victory, now the world can end!

What Happened To Monday: Plot Explained

One child only.

As always, let’s do this linearly. In the not-so-distant future, the population of the Earth has multiplied many folds. There is a massive shortage of resources of all kinds. The world opts for genetically modified crops which get fast-tracked around the globe. But this leads to a staggering spike in multiple births across the world. The solution is now feeding the problem. No one knows what to do.

Political activist and renowned conservation biologist Dr. Nicolette Cayman has prompted the Federation to institute a “one child per family” policy. All citizens are required to wear a Bureau-issued identity bracelet. All siblings, born thereafter, are remanded to Bureau-enforced cryosleep.

What Happened To Monday: Nicolette’s Scheme

The picture Nicolette paints is that these children who are put into cryosleep will be woken up when the crisis the world is going through is handled. That these children will awaken in a better world. The present world will deal with their shortage issues by means of their reduced population. The picture that Nicolette paints is a lie. The sibling children are not put into cryosleep. They are put to sleep and then burnt to ashes. There is no preservation of children. They are simply killed off. The way she sees it is that there is no room for more people on the planet. All “additional” children need to be removed. Putting them into cryosleep will need power and more resources to keep them all alive. So they are all killed off. Obviously, no one knows this but Nicolette and a few people working closely with her.

Terrence Settman

Terrence Settman (Willem Dafoe) is one such person whose daughter Karen Settman has Septuplets, thanks to the genetically modified food. Karen dies. Terrence doesn’t announce the 7 siblings to the authorities. He names them each by one day of the week. He decides that all 7 of them will live in secrecy in a place that has hidden areas (which he builds). He trains them all to take on the identity of Karen Settman. Each of them gets one day of the week to go out and be Karen. They grow up sharing the identity of Karen. When each of them comes back home, they explain to the others how their day was. This step is important as it allows the next girl to go out and continue being Karen.

Losing The Finger

One day when they are young, Thursday decides to sneak out and skate. She ends up falling pretty bad and gets her index finger cut off. Since all of the girls need to look the same, Terrence cuts the index fingers off all the other girls starting from Monday.

Time passes, they grow up. Terrence passes away. The girls have their own identity but are, on each of their days of the week, living the life of a Karen Settman. Karen has a big opportunity for a promotion coming up. These are the seven girls.

Monday’s Story

Over time, Monday has become quite content with being Karen in the external world as well as inside home. The others are very different and force themselves to live as Karen on their day out. Monday has also has met and fallen in love with Adrian Knowles, a security guard, who works for the Bureau. She doesn’t tell the others about her relationship and keeps it a secret. We are shown a moment when Adrian flirts with Monday at a check post.

What Happened To Monday: Pregnancy

Monday becomes pregnant with Adrian’s children. Unfortunately, twins. Which means one of her children will be taken away. Also, her pregnancy will mean that their cover as Karen will be blown. For the sake of her children, she makes a deal with Nicolette. She secretly compromises the knowledge and location of her six sisters in return for her to be free and live her life normally as Karen. Monday siphons millions of the bank’s Euros into Nicolette’s campaign account. Nicolette has been keeping the whole one child thing on a tight leash. People finding out about seven kids making it all these years will ruin things for her. So she agrees to let Monday live free as Karen once the remaining sisters are sleeping with the fishes.

Who is Jerry?

Jerry is a guy in the office who is also eyeing for the promotion. Jerry doesn’t know anything about Karen’s identity as one of seven people. All he knows is that Karen has a contract with Nicolette. He doesn’t know any other detail. He uses that to try and blackmail Monday to get the promotion. Jerry has nothing on the sisters. He’s just an idiot in the middle of chaos and is bound to die because of his ignorance.

Tuesday Abducted

On the day of the promotion, Monday doesn’t return back home. As a result, the rest of the sisters freak out and assume something happened to Monday. Next day, Tuesday heads out to work and tries to act normal. She finds out that Monday has had a fight with Jerry. The sisters think that Jerry is the reason they have been exposed. Tuesday is taken in by the authority. They don’t kill her. They keep her alive. They pluck her eye out though. They use the eye to go get the rest of the siblings.

Sunday Dies

A team is sent to the house. They locate them but the sisters are able to overpower Nicolette’s squad. But Sunday gets shot, she dies. They also notice an eyeball that the squad has with them, it’s Tuesday’s. They assume she’s dead too. The next day Wednesday heads out to find out more. She doesn’t go out as Karen, she goes out dressed as herself. She goes to Jerry’s place to confront him. He tells her about the contract and as expected, he gets sniped. Headshot by Nicolette’s men who are following Wednesday.

Wednesday on the run

Wednesday makes a run for it as they come to get her. The sisters advise Wednesday to jump out the window because there is a dumpster that will soften her landing. And so she jumps off 3 floors … into an empty, metallic dumpster. And survives. Survives enough to continue running at full speed. The other siblings give a sheepish grin. Apparently, gravity and height are best ignored in case of goof-ups like these.

Adrian and Saturday

Just then, Adrian shows up at their door. He’s there to meet Monday. Saturday goes to open the door while the rest hide. Adrian flirts with Saturday (thinking she’s Monday). She asks for a time-out and goes in to meet with her sisters. They are confused as to who this dude and which one amongst them has been seeing him. Friday gives Saturday a bracelet that can pair with Adrian’s when they are at his place. This way they can get access to the Bureau’s servers. Saturday leaves home with Adrian to his place.

Wednesday Dies

The remaining sisters (Thursday and Friday) guide Wednesday to a roof to make a fantastic leaping jump… only to be shot in mid-air in the chest. She’s then shot in the head and falls to her death (metallic dumpster or not). Wednesday is dead.

Saturday Dies

Saturday manages to pair her device with Adrian’s. Friday gains access to the Bureau’s network. She finds out more about the million dollar transaction from Karen to Nicolette. They go through surveillance footage to find Tuesday in a cell. But they think it is Monday who is held hostage. Saturday also finds out from the conversation that Adrian has been seeing Monday. Adrian leaves for work. Soon after, Nicolette’s men come in and kill Saturday.

Friday Dies

Thursday and Friday get attacked. Friday syncs all their data to Thursday’s device. After this, she blows up their apartment killing the assailants and herself. Adrian gets to the sister’s house as he hears activity happening there on his radio. He goes up to find a dead Friday being taken out. He thinks it is Monday. He gets back to his car in disbelief.

What Happened To Monday: Recap

• So Monday is alive and well.
• Tuesday is alive and captive without an eye.
• Wednesday is dead.
• Thursday is alive and on the loose.
• Friday is dead.
• Saturday dead.
• Sunday is dead.

Adrian helps Thursday

Thursday assaults Adrian asking why he sold them out. Soon she realizes that Adrian is actually in love with Monday and he knows nothing about them being siblings. Thursday explains to Adrian that Monday is still alive but captive. He helps Thursday sneak into the Bureau.

Thursday sees the truth

Inside the Bureau, Thursday witnesses a young girl being burnt to ash under the pretext of putting her into cryosleep. She secretly records it on her hand device.

She locates Tuesday. She looks at her missing eye and realizes that it’s not Monday. Thursday takes Tuesday’s wig and works herself to look like Karen. In the meanwhile, Monday is signing her deal with Nicolette. Tuesday takes the recording and heads to the server room with the help of Adrian.

What Happened To Monday: Ending Explained

Monday dies.

Monday confronts Thursday. Thursday (and the audience) finally realizes that it was Monday who sold them out. Monday says she fell in love with Adrian and everything changed. Monday tells her that she was the first born and has the right to be Karen all by herself. She has worked hardest to be Karen. They two of them begin to fight. Thursday shoots Monday.

The Truth Is Revealed

Meanwhile, Adrian and Tuesday are able to get to the server and play the video of the girl being burnt to ashes. Nicolette is giving her speech. The video comes on and everyone now knows that there are no children in cryosleep. Monday comes back wounded with a gun. She gets shot by an agent. Nicolette is devastated. She leaves. Monday is dying and finally announces that she’s pregnant. She dies. Somehow, in the middle of all that chaos, Monday’s children are saved and taken in to an artificial womb.

Victory, now the world can end!

Nicolette is arrested. The one-child policy is removed. Captive children are released. Is it a happy ending for the humans? Hell no. There are now too many humans on the planet. Lack of food and resources will lead to their doom. Nicolette was technically saving the human race but she was doing it through lies and deceit.

Tuesday renames herself Terry. Thursday takes on the name Karen. Monday’s twins are safely held in an artificial incubation unit. They will eventually be born into the world of dying humans. What Happened To Monday ends with a strange sense of victory over evil. However, the reality is … humans have doomed themselves.

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'Seven Sisters' Trailer: Noomi Rapace Plays One Big Family

Noomi Rapace plays Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in  Seven Sisters . In the future, siblings are outlawed, but Willem Dafoe  decides to stick it to the system and keep his granddaughters – seven twins – a secret. They don't stay a secret forever in the Netflix movie, though.

Below, watch the Seven Sisters trailer.

The sisters all explore the outside world under the name of Karen Settman. What Settman does on a day-to-day basis is a little unclear in the international trailer, but maybe she has some connection to the head of the Birth Control Board, Nicolette Cayman ( Glenn Close ). After Monday spends some time out in the world one day, she doesn't return home. What happened to her is a mystery, but it leads to the other six siblings having to fight for their lives in an overpopulated world.

Seven Sisters  is the new film from  Tommy Wrikola , the director of  Dead Snow  and a movie not without its charm,  Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters .  Kerry Williamson and Max Botkin  penned the original sci-fi thriller, which co-stars  Robert Wagner .

Seven Sisters  opens in some foreign territories this summer, but Netflix hasn't announced a release date yet. The movie was originally called What Happened to Monday? , which is a pretty cool title that maybe should've stayed.  Seven Sisters  is very self-explanatory, but the old title is the more memorable of the two. Definitely less generic.

Always a draw with these sort of movies is watching a talented actor give more than a single performance. Rapace is probably more than up for the challenge of playing seven  distinct characters. Since her breakout performance in  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , the movies she's starred in have varied in quality, but she's shined in more performance-driven movies, like  The Drop . After watching the  Seven Sisters  trailer, I'm most interested in the work she does in the film.

2073. The Earth is overpopulated. The government decided to introduce a one-child policy, applied by the Birth Control Board, under the aegis of Nicolette Cayman (Glenn Close). Confronted with the birth of seven twins, Terrence Settman (Willem Dafoe) decides to keep the existence of his 7 granddaughters secret. Confined to their apartment, each day they will have to share a unique identity outside, simulating the existence of one person: Karen Settman (Noomi Rapace).

Though the secret remains intact for years, everything collapses on the day that Monday mysteriously disappears ...

Correction: The original version of this article did not credit screenwriter Max Botkin. We apologize for the error.

'Seven Sisters' Trailer Shows off Noomi Rapace's Strong 'Orphan Black' Vibes

Tommy Wirkola's sci-fi thriller, also known as 'What Happened to Monday?', will arrive on Netflix later this year.

If you've never seen the excellent sci-fi series  Orphan Black , or would just like to see a big-screen version of the Clone Club, then  Seven Sisters might be just right for you. Granted, the feature film isn't connected in any way to the TV series, and instead of  Tatiana Maslany it stars  Noomi Rapace , but the plots of each sound very familiar. Rapace will play the title roles, all twin sisters named after days of the week, which goes a long way toward explaining the alternate title,  What Happened to Monday?

As the first trailer for the film reveals, the world of  Seven Sisters is one in which a government organization has legislated a one-child policy due to overpopulation. So you can imagine what kind of negative attention a set of septuplets would bring. The family's solution is a clever if far-fetched one, but ultimately puts the sisters square in the crosshairs of government enforcers. It'll be interesting to see how Rapace's performance sets her sisters apart, just as it will be a bit of a change of pace for director  Tommy Wirkola , who's become known for fantasy/horror films.

Also starring  Glenn Close ,  Willem Dafoe , Robert Wagner and Christian Rubeck ,  Seven Sisters opens august 23rd in France; Netflix has yet to set a release date for its U.S. debut.

Check out the first trailer for  Seven Sisters below (via Dark Horizons ):

Here's the official (translated) synopsis for  Seven Sisters :

2073. The Earth is overpopulated. The government decided to introduce a one-child policy, applied by the Birth Control Board, under the aegis of Nicolette Cayman (Glenn Close). Confronted with the birth of seven twins, Terrence Settman (Willem Dafoe) decides to keep the existence of his 7 granddaughters secret. Confined to their apartment, each day they will have to share a unique identity outside, simulating the existence of one person: Karen Settman (Noomi Rapace).   Though the secret remains intact for years, everything collapses on the day that Monday mysteriously disappears ...

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• "So rife with plot holes it feels macraméed rather than written (...) Not only does it not realize how dumb it is, there’s a real sense that 'it thinks it’s smart'."  Jessica Kiang : Variety
• "[It] starts off promisingly (...) [Wirkola] soon tosses aside any topical musings — or musings of any kind — in favor of relentless action, brutal violence and iffy melodrama"  Sheri Linden : The Hollywood Reporter
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If science fiction is meant to hold up a mirror to societal fears, it would be difficult to find a more pressing one than overpopulation and limited environmental resources. Set in a world where every family is allowed only one child, “Seven Sisters” stars Willem Dafoe as a grandfather who must hide the existence of his septuplet grandchildren, each played by Noomi Rapace . Rapace made a splash in the original Swedish version of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” and she dives back into the thriller in “Seven Sisters.”

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Previously titled “What Happened to Monday,” each septuplet is named after the day of the week that she is allowed to go outside. Out in the world, they all assume the same identity of Karen Settman. When Monday goes missing on her day, the siblings must go in search of their sister and risk exposure. The trailer is full of dramatic music, Rapace donning various fabulous wigs, and a very sinister Glenn Close. From Norwegian horror director Tommy Wirkola, “Seven Sisters” has all the makings of a juicy sci-fi thriller.

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When I was a youngster you’d be hard pressed to find me reading what back in the sixties were considered ‘girls’ books. Mallory Towers, that sort of thing. And especially something like Little Women. I vaguely knew the plot but, meah, not for me.

Wind on the clock and as I entered by twenties and a sort of Neolithic cultural phase, I began to read classics and hunt out serious plays. Shakespeare wasn’t bad, Ibsen had his moments. Moliere too. But Chekhov? Uncle Vanya came and went and I thought, maybe when I’m grown up.

How therefore did I find myself watching Three Sisters on Monday followed by another four on Tuesday? PG Wodehouse warned me about the duplicity of aunts but did I really need to be cautioned about an overdose of the sisterhood?

And here’s the thing. They were, in their very different ways, worthy of my precious time. I didn’t say I’d learnt humility, did I?

Starting with the Chekhov at the National, and The Three Sisters, this piece was set during the Biafran independence push between 67 and 70. You couldn’t be a child of that time and not be aware of the appalling pictures of pot bellied malnourished children. If Live Aid did that for the 80s Biafra did it for the 60s.

The benefit of taking a standard, like Chekhov’s piece and resetting it is that the core of the play, the power-plays between sisters, the patriarchal restrictions and the all round cunning of domestic warfare remains intact – it’s modernised to the time of course so for instance a duel becomes a wrestling match. These tensions are universal and it matters not which of the last 500 years you set it in for the storylines to remain relevant. But then you add the political background, the tribal, post colonial tensions, the differing viewpoints and you have an engrossing production.

No it was far from perfect. I sighed so deeply I inhaled two rows of the circle so despairing was I of the first ten minutes when the characters stood and declaimed like they were part of an open soliloquy night. Good heavens can’t writers reveal their characters and the essential back story with a little bit of finesse?

And while the actors portrayed many emotions none of them seemed comfortable with lust and sexual attraction. It was a little like watching year 5 nativity night when the distance and lack of physical contact between the boy Joseph and the girl Mary made the concept of a virgin birth not only credible but inevitable.

And what on Earth was the point of a net curtain across the stage during the third act? I know there were meant to be war wounded on the other side but all the curtain did was make me think that the neighbourhood watch had somehow sponsored this production.

The critics warned us this was three hours… long but it passed easily enough and without the usual recovery nap that I need these days for anything that includes bonnets and side whiskers. Or in this case towering headdresses and industrial strength moustaches. I’m glad, over all that I went.

The critics have been kind to Little Women. Very. And you couldn’t fault the cast. But that’s true of Cats and look what a priapic tail and floating faces have done to Judy Dench and Taylor Swift.

I think Saoirse Rohan is a fab actress. Florence Pugh too. Laura Dern and Meryl Streep are both consummate professionals. Emma Watson is a little two paced for me, frankly a bit like watching the Ladybird Book of Emoting For Beginners. But as an ensemble of female acting talent it would be criminal to offer them anything as misconceived as Cats.

Fortunately for us they are given a wonderful piece of writing. Now, okay, I’m not a fan of the St Vitus timeline that we have here, with it jumping from childhood to adulthood to the first loves to the current day. The only time I was sure when we were was 1. When Jo March was in New York and Amy in France and 2. When Jo sold her hair. Otherwise I held my breath at a change of scene and waited for a clue. Was Beth dead… oh please, if you don’t know the plot then read a summary – this piece has been around too long for plot spoilers to be an issue. Had father reappeared? Was Aunt March dead?

Still being made to concentrate isn’t such a bad thing and the beautiful writing, the fantastically attractive settings, the utterly unmemorable score – believe me that is a good thing; I can’t tell you the times some ill presented piece of music has ruined a cinematic experience – all of it added up to a lovely night at the cinema.

This is a good film, a watchable piece. It tugs at ones emotions, it explains in ways that the Three Sisters failed fully to unravel, each of the March sisters’ motivations without creating heroes and villains. These are nuanced characters, flawed and frustrated and you root for them all in the end. Even the long suffering mother is better understood in Laura Dean’s hands as anything other than a saint. Her lot is hard, uncompromising and she’s had to make hard choices not all of which are necessarily kind.

Oh and apart from the old guy from the big house who was a bit of a Wuss really, all the men were somewhere on the pathetic spectrum of masculinity. I didn’t root for any of them except to the extent their fortunes were inextricably linked to the March sisters. Indeed, Jo’s publisher apart, if this was the only version of manhood you’d experienced you really would have to wonder why men had any power at all.

Still they say write what you know and maybe Miss Alcott found herself surrounded by emotional eunuchs. I hope they don’t get the gig in some TV spinoff.

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Indeed. Worth the effort.

If I went it would be me on my own 🥴

I hope to see Little Women – one of the books I loved long ago.

You should love it

Splendid writing, Geoff.

Aw you are too generous

I always enjoy your reviews Geoff, though it must be hell going to the theatre with you 😀

I can be a bit of a grump esp in the interval if the first half has been a bit slow or clunky or poorly set or… well pretty much anything I think thats why Linda needs a tub of icecream #comfortfood. Mind you that’s another thing. 3 pounds something for a tub even Thumberlina would say was tiny…

I can not imagine that reworking of Chekhov. Just as well. Glad you endured it for me. Thought my granddaughter would be up for Little Women but she told me the trailer turned her off by going back and forth. So she would have been a good grumpy companion for the film.

Essential type of companion. But really it was very good.

I’m pleased to hear they did a good job of Little Women. I am almost afraid to watch a movie of a favourite book.

Not having known it I loved it really but it is a danger…

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Not having watched any of the iterations since Kate Hepburn played Jo, I was feeling a bit ambivalent about this one too, but … based on your erudition, I might just give it a go. 🙂

Do you’ll really like it…. I hope.

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THE SEVEN SISTERS

From the the seven sisters series , vol. 1.

by Lucinda Riley ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 5, 2015

Although the conceit of six sisters searching for their birth parents is certainly intriguing, one hopes the future books...

Launch of a projected series about six sisters who were adopted from all over the world by a mysterious Swiss tycoon.

When word comes of the death of the seafaring adoptive father they fondly called Pa Salt, his six daughters gather at Atlantis, the estate on Lake Geneva where they grew up. The eldest, Maia—each daughter is named for a star in the Seven Sisters cluster, though a seventh sister never arrived—is the only one who hasn't left the nest: she works from home as a translator. Pa Salt left a will providing all his daughters with the means to pursue their wildly divergent paths but with specific instructions that each investigate her origin. The clues provided by Pa Salt—a moonstone necklace, a set of coordinates, and a triangular stone tile—lead Maia to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro; the sole inhabitants, an old woman named Senhora Carvalho and her maid, Yara, are initially suspicious but relent when they note a family resemblance. A mammoth flashback comprises the bulk of the book. In 1927, Maia’s great-grandmother Izabela “Bel” Bonifacio, the daughter of a wealthy Italian coffee grower, is betrothed to Gustavo Cabral, scion of one of Rio’s most aristocratic Portuguese families. The Cabrals need the Bonifacio money, and the Bonifacios need the Cabrals’ social cachet. Against a backdrop of the Great Depression and the building of Rio’s giant statue of Christ, a tangled tale unspools of Bel’s affair with a Parisian sculptor, of Gustavo’s despair and forgiveness, and of Beatriz, the child of dubious parentage born to them. Maia’s interview with the dying Beatriz reveals additional startling clues about her lineage. The novel churns through a lot of exposition and logistics before racing to a satisfactory payoff. Maia’s frame story seems almost an afterthought, though—the Bonifacio-Cabral saga is clearly the main event.

Pub Date: May 5, 2015

ISBN: 978-1-4767-5990-6

Page Count: 480

Publisher: Atria

Review Posted Online: Feb. 13, 2015

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 2015

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A LITTLE LIFE

by Hanya Yanagihara ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 10, 2015

The phrase “tour de force” could have been invented for this audacious novel.

Four men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions—as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer—and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives.

Yanagihara ( The People in the Trees , 2013) takes the still-bold leap of writing about characters who don’t share her background; in addition to being male, JB is African-American, Malcolm has a black father and white mother, Willem is white, and “Jude’s race was undetermined”—deserted at birth, he was raised in a monastery and had an unspeakably traumatic childhood that’s revealed slowly over the course of the book. Two of them are gay, one straight and one bisexual. There isn’t a single significant female character, and for a long novel, there isn’t much plot. There aren’t even many markers of what’s happening in the outside world; Jude moves to a loft in SoHo as a young man, but we don’t see the neighborhood change from gritty artists’ enclave to glitzy tourist destination. What we get instead is an intensely interior look at the friends’ psyches and relationships, and it’s utterly enthralling. The four men think about work and creativity and success and failure; they cook for each other, compete with each other and jostle for each other’s affection. JB bases his entire artistic career on painting portraits of his friends, while Malcolm takes care of them by designing their apartments and houses. When Jude, as an adult, is adopted by his favorite Harvard law professor, his friends join him for Thanksgiving in Cambridge every year. And when Willem becomes a movie star, they all bask in his glow. Eventually, the tone darkens and the story narrows to focus on Jude as the pain of his past cuts deep into his carefully constructed life.  

Pub Date: March 10, 2015

ISBN: 978-0-385-53925-8

Page Count: 720

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: Dec. 21, 2014

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 2015

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by Elin Hilderbrand ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 16, 2015

Once again, Hilderbrand displays her gift for making us care most about her least likable characters.

Hilderbrand’s latest cautionary tale exposes the toxic—and hilarious—impact of gossip on even the most sophisticated of islands.

Eddie and Grace Pancik are known for their beautiful Nantucket home and grounds, financed with the profits from Eddie’s thriving real estate company (thriving before the crash of 2008, that is). Grace raises pedigreed hens and, with the help of hunky landscape architect Benton Coe, has achieved a lush paradise of fowl-friendly foliage. The Panciks’ teenage girls, Allegra and Hope, suffer invidious comparisons of their looks and sex appeal, although they're identical twins. The Panciks’ friends the Llewellyns (Madeline, a blocked novelist, and her airline-pilot husband, Trevor) invested $50,000, the lion’s share of Madeline’s last advance, in Eddie’s latest development. But Madeline, hard-pressed to come up with catalog copy, much less a new novel, is living in increasingly straightened circumstances, at least by Nantucket standards: she can only afford $2,000 per month on the apartment she rents in desperate hope that “a room of her own” will prime the creative pump. Construction on Eddie’s spec houses has stalled, thanks to the aforementioned crash. Grace, who has been nursing a crush on Benton for some time, gives in and a torrid affair ensues, which she ill-advisedly confides to Madeline after too many glasses of Screaming Eagle. With her agent and publisher dropping dire hints about clawing back her advance and Eddie “temporarily” unable to return the 50K, what’s a writer to do but to appropriate Grace’s adultery as fictional fodder? When Eddie is seen entering her apartment (to ask why she rented from a rival realtor), rumors spread about him and Madeline, and after the rival realtor sneaks a look at Madeline’s rough draft (which New York is hotly anticipating as “the Playboy Channel meets HGTV”), the island threatens to implode with prurient snark. No one is spared, not even Hilderbrand herself, “that other Nantucket novelist,” nor this magazine, “the notoriously cranky Kirkus.”

Pub Date: June 16, 2015

ISBN: 978-0-316-33452-5

Page Count: 384

Publisher: Little, Brown

Review Posted Online: May 20, 2015

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 2015

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#BookReview The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley @lucindariley

Maia D’Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, “Atlantis”—a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva—having been told that their beloved father, who adopted them all as babies, has died. Each of them is handed a tantalizing clue to her true heritage—a clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of her story and its beginnings.

Eighty years earlier in Rio’s Belle Epoque of the 1920s, Izabela Bonifacio’s father has aspirations for his daughter to marry into the aristocracy. Meanwhile, architect Heitor da Silva Costa is devising plans for an enormous statue, to be called Christ the Redeemer, and will soon travel to Paris to find the right sculptor to complete his vision. Izabela—passionate and longing to see the world—convinces her father to allow her to accompany him and his family to Europe before she is married. There, at Paul Landowski’s studio and in the heady, vibrant cafes of Montparnasse, she meets ambitious young sculptor Laurent Brouilly, and knows at once that her life will never be the same again.

In this sweeping, epic tale of love and loss—the first in a unique, spellbinding series of seven novels—Lucinda Riley showcases her storytelling talent like never before.

Intriguing, heartwarming, and incredibly captivating!

This is the first book in “The Seven Sisters” series and boy is it a good one.

This is the story of Maia, a young woman who embarks on a journey to discover her parentage and ancestry after recently suffering the loss of her beloved, adoptive father. 

It is predominantly set in Rio, Brazil during both the late 1920s, as well as present day, and is told from two perspectives, Maia and Maia’s maternal great-grandmother, Izabela.

The story, itself, is a sweeping saga filled with self discovery, family, loss, determination, strength, grief, heartbreak, happiness, and everlasting love; as well as an in-depth look into the culture, history and landmarks of Rio, complete with the construction of the iconic Christ the Redeemer and the boom and subsequent demise of the coffee industry.

The prose is precise, poetic, and exquisitely descriptive. And the characters are multi-faceted, genuine, empathetic, and engaging. 

I have to admit I was a little skeptical at first about the size of this novel, but don’t be daunted. This is truly a powerful, fascinating story that will make you cry, make you smile and will have you mesmerized from start to finish.

I can honestly say that after reading this novel, The Storm Sister (Book #2) available now, and The Shadow Sister (Book #3) releasing soon, will be jumping to the top of your “to read” pile.

This novel is available now.

Pick up a copy of this story from your favourite retailer or from the following links. You won’t be disappointed.

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About Lucinda Riley

Lucinda Riley was born in Ireland and, after an early career as an actress in film, theatre and television, wrote her first book aged twenty-four.

Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and sold thirty million copies worldwide. She is a New York Times and Sunday Times number one bestseller.Lucinda's Seven Sisters series, which tells the story of adopted sisters and is inspired by the mythology of the famous star cluster, has become a global phenomenon. The series is a number one bestseller across the world and is currently in development with a major TV production company.

Though she brought up her four children mostly in Norfolk in England, in 2015 Lucinda fulfilled her dream of buying a remote farmhouse in West Cork, Ireland, which she always felt was her spiritual home, and indeed this was where her last five books were written. Lucinda was diagnosed with cancer in 2017 and died in June 2021

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Lucinda Riley's Seven Sisters coming to TV

Lucinda riley's bestselling the seven sisters series may be coming to your television in the not too distant future..

Lucinda Riley's bestselling  The Seven Sisters  series may be coming to television in the not too distant future.

LA production company Raffaella Productions is to create a multi-season television series based on Pan Macmillan author Lucinda Riley's bestselling  The Seven Sisters  series.

Loosely based on the mythology of the star constellation known as the Pleiades (‘The Seven Sisters'), Riley's book series brings the sisters into the modern world, following five adopted sisters as they travel across the world in search of their true heritage.

Producer Raffaella de Laurentiis came across the books during production for 'What Happened to Monday?' - a sci-fi action thriller which also features a story of seven sisters – and immediately saw its appeal. She comments:

'While Riley's storyline is completely different from 'What Happened to Monday?', the book's title and the seven sisters connection compelled me to read it. Though 'What Happened to Monday?' deals with seven sisters in quite a different time and setting, the coincidence was just too much to resist. I immediately fell in love with Lucinda's story.'

Irish author Lucinda Riley wrote her first novel at twenty-four.  Hothouse Flower  was a Richard and Judy book club choice and became a number one international bestseller. She is now a New York Times bestselling author and her books have sold more than eight million copies in thirty-nine languages.

Jeremy Trevathan, Publisher, Pan Macmillan, comments:

'I'm so delighted that Lucinda's sweeping romantic saga of seven sisters will reach the screen. Her books are so visual that I can see how well they would work for television.'

The Seven Sisters

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Maia D’Aplièse and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home – a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva – having been told that their beloved adoptive father, the elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died.

Each of them is handed a tantalising clue to their true heritage – a clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of where her story began.

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Brian De Palma’s “Sisters” was made more or less consciously as an homage to Alfred Hitchcock , but it has a life of its own and it’s a neat little mystery picture. The opening is pure Hitchcock. The movie begins with events so commonplace they’re almost trivial, and the horror of the situation is revealed only gradually. A lithe fashion model and a young newspaperman meet on a quiz show (it’s called “ Peeping Tom ” and asks the question, what would you do if you were inadvertently made voyeur-for-a-day?). She wins a set of stainless steel cutlery, he wins dinner for two at a supper club, and they decide they like each other.

After a few brushes with a mysterious stranger who may or may not be her former husband, the young couple spend the night together and in the morning he is brutally knifed to death. And, no, I haven’t given away too much of the plot. Because there are a few complications. For example, the girl is half of a famous set of Siamese twins. She’s the nice one, but her sister isn’t--not at all.

Then there’s the crusading young girl newspaper reporter, kind of a women’s lib Lois Lane, who lives across the courtyard and witnesses the crime (a la “ Rear Window ”). She calls the police, but they resent a recent series of exposes she’s written. And when they visit the so-called murder apartment they find no blood, no body, no signs of a crime; only the sweet young fashion model.

I don’t suppose I can reveal another line of the plot without spoiling some of De Palma’s nice surprises. But the movie works not so much because of the twists and turns and complications as because of the performances. In a movie industry filled with young actresses who look great but can’t act so well (especially when they’ve got to play intelligent characters), De Palma has cast two of the exceptions: Margot Kidder and Jennifer Salt .

Both of them are really fine, but Jennifer Salt is the bigger surprise because she’s so convincing as the tough, stubborn, doggedly persistent outsider. It’s a classic Hitchcock role. She’s totally uninvolved and innocent, and in possession of information no one will believe. She can’t doubt the evidence of her own eyes, but the cops mistrust her, the body’s gone--and the killer knows who and where she is.

De Palma directs with a nice feeling for the incongruous. There is, for example, Ms. Salt’s delightful suburban mother (Mary Davenport), who wishes sometimes her daughter would stop writing those newspaper columns and settle down in a nice, comfortable marriage. There’s the mysterious stranger (Bill Finley), who looks like an extraterrestrial crossed with a Cold War spy. And there is even the other sister, the other Siamese twin, about whom perhaps the less said the better.

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