Joan Mackenzie: The Missing Sister and China Room

The Missing Sister by Lucinda RileySeventh title in the series about the Seven Sisters which is based on the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades. A billionaire, Pa Salt, adopted seven daughters all with different backgrounds and the story of each of them is told in each of the books.This new one starts in Gibbston Valley and makes its way around the world, as six of the sisters try to find the seventh one they’ve never met and seems to be missing.China Room by Sunjeev SahotIn 1920s Punjab, a widowed matriarch (and awful prospective mother in law) selects three young women to marry her three sons and moves them onto her farm where she prescribes their lives. Heavily veiled and only allowed to meet their husbands in the dark, the new brides don’t know which of the men is the one they married but Mehar, the youngest, thinks she’s figured it out.70 years later, a damaged young man returns from the UK to his family’s roots in Punjab, and takes up residence on the now derelict farm as he tries to fix himself, in the shadow of the life his great-grandmother had in the same place. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.