I work in a bookstore, and Pilcher's novels are listed as Romances, but I truly think they should be fiction. Third Question - Who did you like the best?Ĭan't wait to get your thoughts and comments on this wonderful book. Second Question - Who do you think is the strongest character? Perhaps we can talk Ginny into having the 1999 book reunion in Scotland.įirst Question - Do you think the title was appropriate? The countryside was so realistically portrayed that I felt at home even through I have never been there. I was transported to Scotland from the start, and felt as if I was part of the village.
I immediately warmed to Violet,and sensed that she would be the glue that held the family together. I knew they would eventually come together, but I found myself going back and forth trying to remember where I had met them. I had a difficult time with the beginning of the book, as I slowly got to know the characters. I have just finished it, and wish I hadn't, as I feel like I lost contact with good friends. 100,000 first printing $100,000 ad/promo Troll Book Club main selection.Here we are, finally, ready to discuss this wonderful book by Rosamund Pilcher. Pilcher's 13th book is a satisfying and savory family novel, in which rich layers of description and engagingly flawed characters more than make up for the occasional cliche. Only Olivia, a cool and collected magazine editor, refuses to be party to their barely concealed avarice.
When their grandfather's work suddenly comes into vogue, Nancy, obsessed over status, and sleek Noel, adept at getting the most and giving the least, join in urging their mother to sell The Shell Seekers, a painting that gives her great joy.
In a beautifully detailed family saga that shifts effortlessly back and forth in time, Pilcher (Under Gemini) recounts Penelope's story and that of her three children. Safe in the embracing arms of that warm household, Penelope forgets her sour husband and takes a lover, and in that relationship, too, she weathers the war's privations and its hardest blows. On the heels of a hasty wartime marriage, Penelope Keeling is left to repent at leisure in the English seaside town of Porthkerris, where her artist father and her French mother are spending the duration of World War II.
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