Seven Sisters

Audiobook The Seven Sisters, by Lucinda Riley, translated by Jana Jašová. Read by Kateřina Janečková, Dana Černá and Karolína Půčková. Directed by Jakub Tabery. The Seven Sisters #1 Six young women from different corners of the world gather at the luxurious Atlantis estate on a private peninsula on Lake Geneva, brought home by a sad event: the death of their adoptive father. As part of their inheritance, each sister receives a letter with clues that can lead them to their biological family. And so the eldest sister, the charming translator Maia, finds herself in Brazil, where the coordinates from her father's letter lead her. In Rio de Janeiro, with the help of a local writer, Florian, she traces the steps of the noble and once-powerful Aires Cabral family and discovers that to unravel the mystery of her origins, she must go back several generations. To her great-grandmother, Izabela, who, during the construction of the famous statue of Christ, as an engaged eighteen-year-old girl, travels to Paris with the family of the project's main architect, where she falls passionately in love with a young sculptor, Laurent. Their secret love continues in Rio, and although Izabela marries her high-born fiancé for her parents' sake, it does not remain without consequences… As Maia searches for the moving fates of the women in her family, she falls more and more under the spell of her native Rio, but also under the spell of her charming guide. The journey into the past helps her to come to terms with an unhappy decision in her youth that she has kept secret for years… LUCINDA RILEY Lucinda Riley was born in Northern Ireland as Lucinda Edmonds. Under this name, she wrote her first novel, Lovers and Players, at the age of 24. She published The Seven Sisters series under the surname Riley, after her second husband. She was unable to finish the planned final eighth novel in The Seven Sisters series, as she died prematurely of cancer in 2021 at the age of 56. After her death, the series was completed by her son, Harry Whittaker. The book Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt was published posthumously in May 2023. Her books have been translated into 28 languages and published in 38 countries. DANA ČERNÁ While still studying at the Prague Conservatory, she was a guest performer at the theatre in Hradec Králové. After graduating in 1990, she joined the Central Bohemian Theatre Kladno – Mladá Boleslav. After the theatres split, she performed at the Municipal Theatre in Mladá Boleslav from 1994–1998. Since 2000, she has been a member of the Činoherní klub in Prague, where she has played a number of distinctive characters. In 2015, she was nominated for a Thalia Award for her role as a singing teacher in the production of Commedia finita. Besides theatre, she also does voice-over work (e.g., the role of Charlotte in the series Sex and the City) and is one of the leading radio actresses. She also appears in series or television films. KATEŘINA JANEČKOVÁ She got her first film role at the age of eleven. In 1998, she began studying music and drama at the Prague Conservatory, completing her studies at the Janáček Conservatory in Ostrava. She became widely known to viewers mainly for her role as Ugly Katka in the TV Prima series of the same name. In 2020, she was nominated for a Czech Lion award for the supporting role of Lucie in the film National Avenue. In 2015, she graduated from HAMU in pantomime - non-verbal theatre. Since then, she has occasionally produced her own original performances. From 2016-2018, she worked as a teacher of stage movement and pantomime at VOŠH in Prague. She continued her teaching activities in 2017, when she co-founded the 'Kalegro Acting Workshops' for the general public with Lenka Marušanová, where she also works as a tutor, among other things. In addition to acting, she occasionally works as a presenter and does voice-over recordings.