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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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Transporting you to 1930 and the beautiful, remote island of St Kilda, The Lost Lover is the sweeping historical romance from bestselling author Karen Swan.

An epic first love. A second chance . . .

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 of love stories set on St Kilda, which can be listened to in any order. Continue exploring the romantic islands of Scotland with The Last Summer, The Stolen Hours and The Midnight Secret.

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

‘This sweeping love story gripped us from the start’ -
Independent

‘Powerful writing and a wonderful premise make this a novel you’ll simultaneously want to savour and race through. I loved it!’ - Jill Mansell, author of
An Almost Perfect Summer

©2024 Karen Swan (P)2024 Macmillan Publishers International Limited
20th Century Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romantic Suspense Small Town & Rural Heartfelt Island Highlander

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A lovely novel that 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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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!

Loving this series

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

loved it!

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

Good

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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!

Fabulous story, amazing series!.

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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.

Fantastic

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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

Fabulous

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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 😄

Lost lover

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I waited for number three in the series. It was worth the wait. I felt that it didn’t start the new book well, going over parts of book2 and then after all that the ending was sudden and not enough time spent at the end to complete that part of the story.

Wonderful story

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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!

The story gets more complicated!

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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!!

Couldn't put it down

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