winter solstice rosamunde pilcher book review

'The author of The Shell Seekers has penned another romance sure to give fans the warm fuzzies.' - Publishers Weekly 'Elegant reading in which Rosamunde Pilcher provides the two hallmarks of her writing: gentle, atomospheric recreation of English lifestyles and an appealing cast of interesting people whose lives come together for new experiences while theyre making other plans.' - RT Book Reviews (four stars) '. Winter Solstice is a novel of love, loyalty and rebirth.

Rosamunde Pilcher's long-awaited return to the page will warm the hearts of readers both old and new. It is in this house, on the shortest day of the year, that the lives of five people will come together and be forever changed. It is the strange rippling effects of a tragedy that will bring these five characters together in a large, neglected estate house near the Scottish fishing town of Creagan. Business takes him to northern Scotland, where he falls in love with the lush, craggy landscape and set his sights on a house. He is without home and without roots, all he has is his job. Sam Howard is trying to pull his life back together after his wife has left him for another. With Christmas approaching, Carrie agrees to look after her aunt's awkward and quiet teenage daughter, Lucy, so that her mother might enjoy a romantic fling in America. Carrie returns from Australia at the end of an ill-fated affair with a married man to find her mother and aunt sharing a home and squabbling endlessly. They have a beautiful daughter, Francesca, and it is only because of their little girl that Oscar views his sacrificed career as worthwhile. Oscar Blundell gave up his life as a musician in order to marry Gloria. Gradually she settled into the comfortable familiarity of village life - shopkeepers knowing her tastes, neighbors calling her by name - still she finds herself lonely. Elfrida Phipps, once of London's stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in hopes of making a new life for herself. In Winter Solstice Rosamunde Pilcher brings her readers into the lives of five very different people.

Winter solstice rosamunde pilcher book review