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Lucinda Riley: The author of The Seven Sisters is dead
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The Irish writer Lucinda Riley is dead. This is what Riley's family announced through their publisher Pan Macmillan UK.
Accordingly, the author died as a result of cancer.
According to the Irish Examiner, she was 56 years old.
"We are so sorry to announce that Lucinda died peacefully this morning, surrounded by her family, who were so important to her," said the family announcement published by the publisher.
“We know this will be a terrible shock to most people.
You won't have known that Lucinda had been fighting cancer for four years. "
Riley became famous for her book series "The Seven Sisters".
The latest volume, "The Disappeared Sister" is currently at the top of the bestseller lists.
The book is also currently at the top of the SPIEGEL bestseller list of fiction.
During her cancer illness, Riley wrote a total of five books, according to the family. She touched the lives of everyone she met and read her books. In the note, Riley was quoted as saying, “The pain and joy of travel have taught me the most important lesson life can offer, and I am delighted with it. The moment is all we have. "
Riley was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, in the mid-1960s.
She didn't actually plan to become a writer.
Ballet and acting were more of her taste.
But when she was bedridden by an illness as a young woman, she began to write.
The result was her first novel, »Lovers and Players«, which won her a contract with the renowned publisher Simon & Schuster and was published in 1992.
Numerous books followed, including the seven parts of the series "The Seven Sisters".
She published the last one at the end of May.
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