Leah
Written on May 13, 2013
The Heiresses tells the tale of three girls, Ro, Thalia, and Clio. The girls were brought up separately, though they all knew their adoptive families weren’t their real families. As their 18th birthday approaches the girls are invited to take tea with their Aunt, a real Aunt, where they discover they are in fact triplets and that their mother left them a fortune that they must get back from their step-brother Charles. The girls must work together to get their inheritance but as Thalia says, in the end it’s all about money and when the girls start needing money, they find themselves on opposite sides.
I really quite liked The Heiresses. It wasn’t perhaps as action packed as I suspected it might have been, but it was a great read. I loved the time period it was set in, loved the proper way of speaking, an art form that most definitely does not exist any more, whether for the better or not! I loved how each of the girls stood out, they all had their own personalities, all had their own reasons for needing money, be it selfless like Clio or selfish like Thalia or just plain desperate like Ro.
I really loved Aunt Hestia, I liked that she wanted the girls to all meet, that she wanted to take care of them, that she didn’t just leave them be, especially as Thalia had a rather awful upbringing. It was such a well written novel and I loved how the story of the girls birth slowly unfolded, bit by bit. I really enjoyed The Heiresses, it was a beautiful novel filled with some lovely characters. I particularly liked the Clio and Edwin strand, as I do love a good romance! Yes, if you’re a fan of novels set in the past, this one is definitely for you and I enjoyed it immensely.