Sister
by
Rosamund Lupton (Goodreads Author)
When her mom calls to tell her that Tess, her younger sister, is missing, Bee returns home to London on the first flight. She expects to find Tess and give her the usual lecture, the bossy big sister scolding her flighty baby sister for taking off without letting anyone know her plans. Tess has always been a free spirit, an artist who takes risks, while conservative Bee co
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Published
September 2nd 2010
by Piatkus Books
(first published 2010)
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Feb 13, 2012
Stacey (prettybooks)
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Jodi Picoult fans - it's different but similar
Sister is a psychological thriller from the viewpoint of Beatrice. Beatrice communicates to her missing sister Tess through a letter or diary-like entries. The plot is centered around her attempts to find out the truth about Tess's disappearance.
I loved this book. Another reviewer described it as a "crime fiction novel for people who don't like crime fiction" and I agree with that description. I've read a few crime fiction novels and really enjoyed them (e.g. the Millenium trilogy) but it can b...more
I loved this book. Another reviewer described it as a "crime fiction novel for people who don't like crime fiction" and I agree with that description. I've read a few crime fiction novels and really enjoyed them (e.g. the Millenium trilogy) but it can b...more
Rating: 4.5 stars
I put this book on my ‘mystery/thriller’ shelf based on its blurb, but there’s SO much more to it than that. Yes, the question of what happened to Tess is its central thread, but that’s only one of its many layers and complexities.
I was absorbed by it, confused, compelled. It’s an emotive read, looking at every kind of human trait, and I was moved to tears more than once. It’s one of those books where the full story is only revealed right at the very end, and even then you have...more
I put this book on my ‘mystery/thriller’ shelf based on its blurb, but there’s SO much more to it than that. Yes, the question of what happened to Tess is its central thread, but that’s only one of its many layers and complexities.
I was absorbed by it, confused, compelled. It’s an emotive read, looking at every kind of human trait, and I was moved to tears more than once. It’s one of those books where the full story is only revealed right at the very end, and even then you have...more
Mar 06, 2012
Tinkerbell - Blog MyImaginarium
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
2012
Adorei ler este livro e por isso dei-lhe a classificação máxima – 5 estrelas. Além do mistério, que nos faz querer virar as páginas velozmente, também devido a uma escrita cativante. A autora Rosamund explora o mundo das ligações familiares, principalmente o elo que liga duas irmãs e o faz de uma maneira brilhante.
Quando Beatrice descobre que a sua irmã, Tess, desapareceu sem deixar rasto abandona tudo em Nova York para saber do paradeiro da irmã em Londres. Há medida que acção se desenrola desc...more
Quando Beatrice descobre que a sua irmã, Tess, desapareceu sem deixar rasto abandona tudo em Nova York para saber do paradeiro da irmã em Londres. Há medida que acção se desenrola desc...more
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Nov 29, 2012
Cory
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
readers who like emotionally challenging crime stories

English Review.
I'd do anything to be with you, right now, right this moment, so I could hold your hand, look at your face, listen to your voice.
Sister was an intense, emotional, touching, moving and yet suspenseful thriller that took my breath away. In terms of intensity it reminded me a lot of “If I Stay”, which basically left me as an emotional train wreck.
In the beginning it was a bit difficult to get into the story as Beatrice jumps between times...more
2,5 stars
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Rosamund Lupton estreia-se no mundo literário com este thiller/policial - Irmã. Já muito ouvi falar sobre o livro e as críticas positivas são mais do que as que posso contar. São muitos aqueles que recomendam esta leitura e que dizem que este livro é um policial fantástico, como há muito que não se via. Bem, com tanto aparato à volta deste livro tive de espreitar, como é óbvio.
E mal comecei a ler opiniões e ver as críticas maravilhosas a choverem, tornou-se impossível não formar cert...more
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Rosamund Lupton estreia-se no mundo literário com este thiller/policial - Irmã. Já muito ouvi falar sobre o livro e as críticas positivas são mais do que as que posso contar. São muitos aqueles que recomendam esta leitura e que dizem que este livro é um policial fantástico, como há muito que não se via. Bem, com tanto aparato à volta deste livro tive de espreitar, como é óbvio.
E mal comecei a ler opiniões e ver as críticas maravilhosas a choverem, tornou-se impossível não formar cert...more
This is a great summer read. Not because it is light and fluffy, quite the opposite, but because it is the kind of book that keeps you up very late at night to finish and it's good to be on vacation and not need to get up for work or to get kids ready for school the next morning. That is how I read it. In one night. Stayed awake til after one am to do so. Something about the way the author constructed the plot and the unfolding revelations kept me turning the pages. The shifting tenses and backw...more
This book was astonishing. The blurb does not do the book justice and from what I read on the cover, it was certainly not what I expected. From the start, the book was quite a page turner and it was filled with intrigue. I thought that the way it was written - through a letter/conversation with her 'lawyer'/sister - was very different and effective. The realisation of what the message was and who Beatrice was talking to all along was incredible and quite shocking - The concept of this book is am...more
I'm no longer taking Amazon's recommendations for suspense novels. I was recently disappointed by A Discovery of Witches, and now Sister is getting a big push. Two more boring "thrillers" are hard to imagine. Sister follows snobby, racist Beatrice as she investigates the disappearance and possible murder of her free-spirited sister. Actually, Beatrice has already solved the crime, and is telling the story to a policeman in a series of sessions - which is as annoying a narrative structure as I ha...more
Değişik bir psikolojik gerilim kitabıydı. Beatrice'in hayat dolu Tess'in intihar ettiğine inanılır. Tess ölmeden iki hafta kadar önce doğum yapmıştır ve doğum sonrası depresyona girdiği ve intihar ettiği söylenir. Oysa Beatrice kkardeşinin intihar ettiğine inanmaz. İşin arkasında başka şeyler olduğunu düşünür. Araştırmaya başlar. Kendi hayatını bırakıp herşeyini olayı açığa kavuşturmaya harcar. öyle ki işini bırakır,İngiltere'ye taşınır, erkek arkadaşından ayrılır. İşin peşini inatla bırakmazken...more
Initially, I really enjoyed this book. It opens up and immediately grasps readers with its unique perspective - the book is narrated by one sister directly to her deceased sister, catching her up on what has been happening since her death. It really gives an interesting frame to the novel and its actions. There is a lot of emotion in this book - and Lupton does a wonderful job of conveying a realistic relationship between these two sisters.
Unfortunately, the ending spoiled the entire book for me...more
Unfortunately, the ending spoiled the entire book for me...more
Sep 21, 2011
Diane D.
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
library-books,
mysteries
This book is a debut novel by the author. That said, all I can say is I will definitely be reading more by her.
This book was a gripping page-turner, with some of the most heartfelt writing I have come across in a long time (I really can't say enough about her writing!). Phrases that made me catch my breath. For example: "being depressed would be so welcome compared with the pain of bereavement"; "I'd rather feel guilty for the rest of my life than for her to have felt a second's fear" (mother t...more
This book was a gripping page-turner, with some of the most heartfelt writing I have come across in a long time (I really can't say enough about her writing!). Phrases that made me catch my breath. For example: "being depressed would be so welcome compared with the pain of bereavement"; "I'd rather feel guilty for the rest of my life than for her to have felt a second's fear" (mother t...more
It can be said that most people have experienced a love so deep it connects one soul to another. This connection is not necessarily reserved for lovers, or even a mother and child, it can be between any two people really. As it so happens, souls are not choosy by nature, only we are.
Some people when faced with losing a loved one simply accept and move on. Others refuse death knowing it was brought upon the beloved without mercy and with ill intent. Beatrice knows the latter is true because Beatr...more
Some people when faced with losing a loved one simply accept and move on. Others refuse death knowing it was brought upon the beloved without mercy and with ill intent. Beatrice knows the latter is true because Beatr...more
Feb 12, 2013
Pam
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
anyone who expressed an interest in reading it
As has been said by others, this novel is really a mixture of a crime novel and a book about sisterly love. It is NOT spine-tingling as was written on the front of my book. By the way, I've think I've decided to not pay too much attention to reviews of any book before I actually read it; even though I need to know something about it to decide if I want to read it, I'm finding that too much is sometimes given away in reviews, so am going to have to be more careful about what I read ahead of time....more
I really like Rosamund Lupton's writing, and what I liked more in 'Sister' was her ability to assemble the sequence of the story, mixing flashbacks with flashforwards until the surprise at the end. I was really captured by the story and I managed to follow it from start to end, even if I'm not usually into thrillers or other similar kinds of books.
'Sister' isn't only about the murder of Tess Hemmings, but is about the love of Beatrice for her sister. She was very close to Tess and after her dead...more
'Sister' isn't only about the murder of Tess Hemmings, but is about the love of Beatrice for her sister. She was very close to Tess and after her dead...more
This is quite clearly a literary novel which is about sisters who do not misunderstand each other no matter what. Their love for each other leads to a justice that would have been impossible without the certainty of understanding another human being so intimately as only close sisters can. It is also a murder mystery that explores the inner life of a family changed by the tragedy of the death of a young brother a decade before, which initially leads to a slow distancing as time and lifestyle cho...more
Oct 28, 2011
Heather
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
pop-fiction,
thriller-adventure
Wow. Just...wow. What an intelligent, interesting, heartfelt, and classic mystery and copious examination of relationships during a time of grieving. Bee's sister disappears and later turns up dead. The medical examiner rules the death as a suicide, but Bee doesn't believe her sister would ever take her own life. Bee digs deeper and deeper unearthing more and more about Tess's final months/days. This story, written as a letter to her Bee's dead sister, allows you to tag along as Bee experiences...more
Beatrice returns to England after hearing that her younger sister, Tess, has gone missing. Before long her body is discovered in a toilet block. But rather than a hunt for her murderer ensuing, Tess's death is ruled a suicide and it's left up to Beatrice to prove otherwise.
This story is a narration by Beatrice to her sister outling her emotions as well as her actions leading up to the identification of Tess's killer. I enjoyed this style of storytelling very much. Not only is it well written, bu...more
This story is a narration by Beatrice to her sister outling her emotions as well as her actions leading up to the identification of Tess's killer. I enjoyed this style of storytelling very much. Not only is it well written, bu...more
Dec 04, 2012
Encruzilhadas Literárias
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
civilização-editora,
convidado-a
Irmã é um daqueles livros que não conseguimos parar de ler.
Para quem tem irmãos, como eu, é um livro que nos toca especialmente, visto que a autora consegue captar as emoções e passar para as letras o sentimento de desespero que qualquer pessoa sentira com o desaparecimento de um irmão.
Este livro não só é um policial como é também um livro sobre esperança. Beatrice, a irmã mais velha, é uma personagem captivante e com imensa força o que torna a leitura do livro muito fácil.
Apesar do seu sofrimen...more
Para quem tem irmãos, como eu, é um livro que nos toca especialmente, visto que a autora consegue captar as emoções e passar para as letras o sentimento de desespero que qualquer pessoa sentira com o desaparecimento de um irmão.
Este livro não só é um policial como é também um livro sobre esperança. Beatrice, a irmã mais velha, é uma personagem captivante e com imensa força o que torna a leitura do livro muito fácil.
Apesar do seu sofrimen...more
This book was recommended to me by my friend for my bookclub choice. This is Rosamund Lupton's debut novel and for a first novel I thought overall it was a good read. The novel flicks between Beatrice (Bee) having a conversation and re-telling her story to a lawyer, and a letter she is writing to her sister Tess. I didn't mind the writing style that the athour uses, but a few at bookclub didn't like this style and found it very irritating, going between a conversation/letter writing/emails.
I did...more
I did...more
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The plot moves things quickly. The narrator never comes clearly into focus, however. My sense is that the author wanted to write a "message" novel and found a way to package it here--by crafting a story of a woman who returns to the UK from NYC to solve the murder of her younger sister (whose death has been ruled a suicide). The framing device of the main character talking to a lawyer works--and the author picks great times to pull out of the narrative present to provide the meaty details. The t...more
Oh, Sister, how I loved you so.
This is my first Rosamund Lupton read as I bought two of her published books simultaneously, because 1. I knew I was going to love it. 2. I didn't want to wait if I loved the first and hadn't bought the second. 3. Both were luckily on sale in Bookdepository and I got both half price.
I felt like reading something contemporary, set in English, with an air of mystery. It's beautiful - Lupton's prose is so solid, sophisticated and fluid. Conversations flow like raw emo...more
This is my first Rosamund Lupton read as I bought two of her published books simultaneously, because 1. I knew I was going to love it. 2. I didn't want to wait if I loved the first and hadn't bought the second. 3. Both were luckily on sale in Bookdepository and I got both half price.
I felt like reading something contemporary, set in English, with an air of mystery. It's beautiful - Lupton's prose is so solid, sophisticated and fluid. Conversations flow like raw emo...more
A few of the criticisms I read had to do with the boredom of being in the narrator's head (if they liked the story or the telling devices at all) and I found this is what grabbed me most. The story was interesting to me, the mystery etc - but I wasn't necessarily blown away (Can we be, anymore? Is there a twist that hasn't been done?). Which is okay. What I find engaging personally ends up being the voice, the characters, and when it's written in first person it's impossible not to personalize,...more
Jan 25, 2013
Heather
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
suspense fans, sisters
I bought this book on a sort of whim. I had some credit left at one of my favorite places to scoop up used books (one of the best ways to reuse!) and wanted to use it up before I moved out of the area. I had seen this book during past trips there and it had stayed in the back of my mind. I passed my suspense/crime phase a long time ago so don't usually buy this style of book anymore.
Despite my previous passing up of this book, once I started reading "Sister" I had to know what the truth was. Be...more
Despite my previous passing up of this book, once I started reading "Sister" I had to know what the truth was. Be...more
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This book took me a long time (over two weeks) to read, which is not usually a good sign for a murder mystery/psychological thriller. The mystery itself failed to draw me in and keep me turning pages. When the killer was revealed at the end of the book, I could not remember his character. But I loved the relationship between the two sisters and I loved the way the dead sister loomed large in the living sister's mind, heart, and life long after the murder.
In terms of the writing, I had some defin...more
In terms of the writing, I had some defin...more
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Rosamund Lupton started writing when she could first hold a pencil. She studied English literature at Cambridge University. Following her BA degree, she was a freelance copywriter and reviewer, including writing reviews for the Literary Review. She won a TV play competition and became a full time screenwriter, working for the BBC and independent film companies. When her youngest child started scho...more
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