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The Lost Lover

Wild Isle, Book 3

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The Lost Lover

By: Karen Swan
Narrated by: Lesley Harcourt
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An epic first love. A second chance . . .

'One of our most prolific and talented writers’ – Santa Montefiore


Young Flora MacQueen has always dreamt of more than life on the small Scottish island of St Kilda. So, when she catches the eye of visiting adventurer and wealthy businessman James Callaghan, her future seems brighter.

Winter seas separate the lovers but the island’s evacuation the following summer promises to reunite them – until tragedy strikes.

Heartbroken and needing to support her family on the mainland, a chance meeting offers hope. Soon Flora is the toast of glamorous Paris; fame and fortune are hers for the taking. But at a high price.

When a scandal erupts back home, she is implicated, along with her friends, Effie and Mhairi. But then a deception comes to light that will change everything . . .

The Lost Lover is Book Three in Karen Swan's bestselling Wild Isle series, following The Last Summer and The Stolen Hours.

©2024 Karen Swan (P)2024 Macmillan Publishers International Limited
20th Century Historical Fiction Romantic Suspense Small Town & Rural Heartfelt Island Highlander
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A lovely novel which I hugely enjoyed. I envy Karen Swan's skill to evoke a landscape and a very different past so effortlessly. The love story was all that one would wish and the characters are terrific. (Elizabeth Buchan, author of Against Her Nature)

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Loving this series

Such a great story, but the ending.. so sudden! And so long to wait for next book!
Would love to see this as a TV series!

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Good to catch up with the girls again.

A different take on the mystery that occurred on St Kilda, this time from Flora's perspective. I like how all the pieces are starting to come together and bits are being revealed that weren't evident in the first two books. I found the ending a little rushed though, some events almost a bit too twee in an effort to round the book off and crack on with the next. I didn't see the twist though. Can't believe I have to wait til next year for another book to get to the conclusion though. , or maybe Karen Swan will decide tol spin it out into another couple of books, who knows!

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Fabulous story, amazing series!.

I have read all the series up to now, I can’t wait for the next book coming out in April 2025. Loved it, such a cliffhanger!!!! Wow!

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The story gets more complicated!

More of the events on the last days on St Kilda are revealed, but not all, and tantalisingly we need to wait a year to find out the whole story of the mystery. What a pity the book was not narrated by either of those who read the first two. The attempts at accents spoilt things, but it is an absorbing story so one persists!

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Couldn't put it down

Third title in the series didnt disappoint with the only downside being that I now have to wait patiently for the forth book. Karen Swan's descriptions bring everything vividly to life. "she longed to live somewhere her hair would stay still..." as a fellow islander in the Western Isles you've put into words something we've thought for decades!!

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loved it!

Please tell me there's another book to come! Just can't get enough of these characters.

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Good

The Lost Lover, Karen Swan. Book was good but preferred the previous narrators. Third in series.

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Fantastic

Karen Swan is such a wonderful author, and … for the first time ever listening to an audiobook … I found the narrator to be equally brilliant.

This is the third book in a series. If you have not listened to any of them, you have a delightful time ahead.

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Fabulous

Exactly as good as the two previous titles in this series, just can’t wait till the next one to continue the stories of the three girls

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A fantastic addition to the series, new characters are introduced and old ones are entwined in this story leaving the reader excited to read the fourth book in the series and find out what happens to the young women the stories are centred around. Can’t wait 😄

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