Showing results by author "Rosamunde Pilcher" in Genre Fiction

Can you ever re-create that first great love? Victoria Bradshaw fell in love with London playwright Oliver Dobbs when she was just 18. But he left her and disappeared from her life. Now, years later, he is a widower standing on her doorstep with his two-year-old son in his arms. And Victoria is foolish enough to want to take him back. Their early spring journey to a castle in Scotland becomes an odyssey of emotional discovery....

Artist's daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly loved. She has brought up three children - and learned to accept them as they are. Yet she is far too energetic and independent to settle sweetly into pensioned-off old age.

Prue is intelligent, artistic, independent - and bored. Pressured by her mother to make a conventional and dull marriage, she is delighted to escape London and seek retreat with her eccentric and bohemian aunt in Cornwall. A chance encounter with an attractive young artist on the seashore leads to day after idyllic summer's day of exploring the Cornish countryside and coast. But there is something troubling Daniel, and Prue - now deeply entangled - feels compelled to discover what it is.

One of the best-selling and most famous sagas of the last four decades, The Shell Seekers is an enduring classic which has touched the hearts of millions worldwide. Set in Gloucestershire, London, Cornwall and Ibiza, and shifting between 1939 and 1985, this poignant drama explores themes of memory, fate, trauma and connection.

Emma Litton can't get on with her life until she finds out just what place she has in her father's heart. She'd been at school in Europe since she was 14, then found a job in Paris, always wondering what her famous artist father was doing in Japan or America or at their cottage in Cornwall. Even after she meets Robert Morrow, a handsome gallery owner, and rediscovers her stepbrother, Christo, she still feels compelled to probe into the truth about her past.

At her dying mother's bedside, Rebecca Bayliss is shattered to learn of a family she never knew existed. Determined to find them, Rebecca journeys to Boscarva, a beautiful mansion in Cornwall, to meet a family torn by passion and greed. From her grandfather Grenville Bayliss, who is hiding an explosive secret, to a handsome cousin whose kisses are dangerously seductive, to sensual craftsman Joss Gardner, whose past hints of intrigue, Rebecca becomes entangled in a family mystery.

"Es wird allmählich Zeit, dass du heiratest." Prue Shackleton, jung, schön und eigenwillig, kann die Ermahnungen ihrer Mutter nicht mehr hören. Statt sich um einen vielversprechenden Heiratskandidaten zu kümmern, fährt sie kurz entschlossen zu ihrer exzentrischen Tante ans Meer. In der einsamen Landschaft Cornwalls findet Prue Ruhe und Abstand. Doch damit ist es vorbei, als sie dem jungen Künstler Daniel begegnet.

Penelope Keelings liebster Besitz ist ein Gemälde mit dem Titel "Die Muschelsucher". Als ihre Kinder erfahren, dass das Werk ein Vermögen wert ist, entbrennt heftiger Streit darum. Doch Penelope kann sich nicht von dem Bild trennen. Zu viele Erinnerungen sind damit verbunden: an ihre unkonventionelle Kindheit in Cornwall, an die Kriegsjahre - und an ihre große Liebe.

La elegante pluma de Rosamunde Pilcher recrea un microcosmos de sentimientos enmarcados en unas complejas relaciones familiares. Penelope Stern, protagonista de esta historia, es hija de un cotizado pintor de fama internacional. Su estabilidad afectiva depende de una serie de hechos ocurridos en el pasado. Ha convivido dolorosamente con sus secuelas, pero ahora está dispuesta a unir todos los cabos sueltos. Y no cejará en su empeño hasta conseguir comprenderse a sí misma y a los miembros de su familia.

Den unge troskyldige Victoria bliver pludselig revet ud af sin trygge dagligdag som ekspedient i London: Hendes gamle kæreste, Oliver, tropper op med sin moderløse 2-årige søn. Sammen tager de op til et skotsk landsted, hvor Oliver har en forfatterkollega for at finde tilbage til hinanden. Her møder de tilfældigvis John, en ung rig amerikaner og arving til landstedet, og med ét ændres alting.

Tvillingepigerne Rose og Flora bliver skilt fra hinanden kort efter fødslen. Den ene rejser med moderen til Amerika, den anden bliver hos sin far i Cornwall. Ingen af dem kender til den andens eksistens. En dag mødes de tilfældigt, og det sætter en handling i gang, som i hvert fald den ene godt kunne have undværet. De bytter roller, og Flora rejser til Skotland for midlertidigt at indtage Roses plads som Antonys forlovede.