There's one section with a creepy old man that makes your skin crawl, another with a beautiful party dress that just radiates first love and all the hormones that go with it. It felt like a glimpse into that world as it truly was during that tumultuous period. Pilcher can paint a picture of grief or innocence without making it dramatic. They were flawed, kind, selfish, naïve, and all of the things real people are. I felt like Judith, Loveday, Aunt Biddy, Edward, Gus, Jeremy, etc.

It reminded me a bit of Brideshead Revisited in that way. She becomes close with the Carey-Lewis family and their glamorous lifestyle at their home, Nancherrow. Judith’s parents and young sister Jess head to Singapore for work while she stays in England with her aunt. It was a lovely read, one filled with unforgettable characters and setting that I got lost in. Two years later, she was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).This thick novel stretches from 1935-45 and is set on the beautiful shores of Cornwall. She retired from writing in 2000 following publication of Winter Solstice. In 1996, her novel Coming Home won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by Romantic Novelists' Association. In 1955, she also began writing under her married name Rosamunde Pilcher, by 1965 she her own name to all of her novels. She published a further ten novels under that name. In 1949, her first book, a romance novel, was published by Mills & Boon, under the pseudonym Jane Fraser. Her son, Robin Pilcher, is also a novelist. They had two daughters and two sons, and fourteen grandchildren. They moved to Dundee, Scotland, where she remained until her death in 2019.

On 7 December 1946, she married Graham Hope Pilcher, a war hero and jute industry executive who died in March 2009. From 1943 through 1946, Pilcher served with the Women's Naval Service. She began writing when she was seven and published her first short story when she was 18. Clare's Polwithen and Howell's School Llandaff before going on to Miss Kerr-Sanders' Secretarial College. Just before her birth her father was posted in Burma, her mother remained in England. Rosamunde Scott was born on 22 September 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall, England, UK, daughter of Helen and Charles Scott, a British commander.

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