The Butterfly Room

Posy Montague is approaching her seventieth birthday, still living at Admiral House, the Suffolk family home where she spent an idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her father and later raised her own children. Despite the memories the house holds and the garden she has spent twenty-five years cultivating, the house is crumbling, and Posy knows the time has come to sell.

Then Freddie reappears — her first love, who abandoned her and broke her heart fifty years before. Unfolding across multiple timelines, The Butterfly Room traces Posy's life from a wartime childhood through betrayal and loss to the present, as old secrets resurface alongside the decision that will determine Admiral House's fate. Lucinda Riley's standalone novel blends family saga, second-chance romance, and multigenerational mystery.