The World of Rosamunde Pilcher
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Rosamunde Pilcher's worldwide best-sellers, The Shell Seekers, September, and Coming Home, enchanted millions with their beguiling descriptions of the coasts of Cornwall, the Highlands of Scotland, and the society of London. Now, in this lavishly illustrated, full-color book, Rosamunde Pilcher invites people to share with her the breathtaking views and tranquil places that have inspired her writing.
Rosamunde Pilcher's journey begins in Cornwall where she grew up. The dreamy villages, stout cottages, and beautiful gardens of her childhood stand out amidst the artists' studios, galleries, and cafes. This is the landscape that readers of the Shell Seekers, The Empty House, and Coming Home know and love.
Then there is the world of September and Wild Mountain Thyme--Rosamunde Pilcher's Scotland. Her home after marriage, the Scottish hills overflow with heather and clear streams running with trout. It's a place of country houses and annual balls that preserve the warmth of family and a stately pace of life.
London has always been a welcome contrast to Rosamunde Pilcher's peaceful country life: socializing in the elegant Kensington town houses, afternoon tea at the Ritz, and parties in Chelsea are all familiar rituals that evoke the mood of a time now past.
With an introduction by the author, snapshots from family albums, mouth-watering recipes from her own kitchen, and extracts from her unforgettable novels and short stories, the World of Rosamunde Pilcher will be treasured by her millions of loyal fans. Moreover, as with Rosamunde Pilcher's novels, the beautiful places within these covers are testaments to the gorgeous landscape and glorious cultural heritage of Britain.
Rosamunde Pilcher
ROSAMUNDE PILCHER (1924- 2019) wrote such worldwide bestselling novels as The Shell Seekers, September, Coming Home, Winter Solstice, and Voices in Summer. Her breakthrough novel, The Shell Seekers, sold more than 10 million copies. Pilcher also authored the photographic autobiography, The World of Rosamunde Pilcher. She was an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and lived in Perthshire, Scotland.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a wonderful book full of pictures of the places in Cornwall and Scotland that Rosamunde Pilcher is familiar with and has written about in her novels. She describes some of her family history and the homes she has lived in. Now I can see what she is writing about!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lovely trip down memory lane. It was so nice to put pictures and people to the stories I have loved over the past 25 years.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very enjoyable for fans of Pilcher's books. I was pleasantly surprised when I stumbled upon this book. Beautiful photos and book quotes accompany the biographical facts of Rosamunde Pilcher's life. Definitely recommend.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sort of a behind the scenes look at the novels of Rosamunde Pilcher. Takes you to the places which have obviously been the inspiration for some of her work, with lots of lovely photos.
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The World of Rosamunde Pilcher - Rosamunde Pilcher
MY SECOND HOME
The past is another country. Dornoch, Sutherland. A village, a town, a city? With less than a thousand inhabitants, yet the proud possessor of an eleventh-century Cathedral, which stands, with its ancient graveyard, in the middle of the main square. To the south lie the Bishop’s Palace (now a hotel), the County Hall and the old Town Jail. To the north, runs the High Street, with small shops, and cleft by narrow lanes, brimming with flower-gardens. Once, the Cathedral was Roman Catholic. After the Reformation, it became Episcopalian. Now, it is the Church of Scotland parish church, and filled every Sunday morning.
The village lies on the sea. So far north, the shores are blessed by the Gulf Stream, and the climate is similar to that of Eastbourne. Gardens burgeon with roses, and waves that break onto the beaches are clear as glass, the sands white and clean, unpolluted by plastic or over-spilled oil, and littered only by shells. The golf links run alongside the turfy dunes. Inland, the hills rise, and fold away to the west. Cloud shadows move slowly across their gentle summits and in August they are cloaked in purple heather. The air is pure and sweet as wine, and the skies are a painter’s skies, laid on with a wet brush, banks of cumulus revealing glimpses of the still blue of the upper air.
I went first, reluctantly. I did not want to travel to the North of Scotland for a summer holiday, because I wanted to spend the time in Cornwall, where I had been a child, and where my heart still lay. But I had a new baby, and the journey was too long an ordeal for this tiny infant. As well, my husband wanted to play golf. So the entire household, parents, two children, the baby, a Nanny and three dogs, decamped and drove to