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Set against the backdrop of an elegant Cornwall mansion before World War II and a vast continent-spanning canvas during the turbulent war years, this captivating story tells of an extraordinary young woman's coming of age, coming to grips with love and sadness, and in every sense of the term, coming home.... In 1935, Judith Dunbar is left behind at a British boarding school when her mother and baby sister go off to join her father in Singapore.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher invites listeners to share the full spectrum of life’s moods and emotions through the thirteen stories gathered here in her very first collection of short fiction. From a child’s first knowledge of death, through city and country, to an...

Sitting on a California beach at summer's end, Jane Marsh thinks back to her childhood at the estate called Elvie in a remote corner of Scotland. She remembers not only the heather-covered hills and the lonesome loch but her grandmother...and, of course, Sinclair. She has secretly dreamed of marrying rakishly handsome Sinclair and settling at Elvie forever. Then an urgent visit from her grandmother's lawyer becomes the catalyst for her return to Scotland, where waiting for her is passion, not gentle love....

At the end of a long and useful life, Penelope Keeling's prized possession is The Shell Seekers, painted by her father, and symbolizing her unconventional life, from bohemian childhood to wartime romance. When her grown children learn their grandfather's work is now worth a fortune, each has an idea as to what Penelope should do. But as she recalls the passions, tragedies, and secrets of her life, she knows there is only one answer...and it lies in her heart.

As spring comes to Scotland and the hills burst into life, a dance is planned for September. The invitations summon home the group of people Violet Aird has cared for most in her long life. The oldest, strongest and wisest of them all, she sees Alexa, her vulnerable granddaughter, find love for the first time while the decision to send her little grandson away to school is driving parents Edmund and Virginia even further apart.

At 27, Virginia Keile had been through the most intense experiences life had to offer - a magical first love ending in heartbreak, a suitable marriage, motherhood, and widowhood. All she wanted now was to take her daughter and son to a seaside cottage in Cornwall and help them recover. But Virginia's true love was there, waiting, hoping, praying that this time she would be strong enough to seize happiness, in The Empty House.

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.

Born in Colombo, Judith Dunbar spends her teenage years at boarding school while her beloved mother and younger sister live abroad with her father. When her new friend, Loveday Carey-Lewis, invites Judith home for the weekend to Nancherrow, the Carey-Lewises' beautiful estate on the Cornish coast, it is love at first sight.

Elfrida Phipps loves her new life in her pretty Hampshire village. She has a tiny cottage, her faithful dog, Horace, and the friendship of the neighbouring Blundells - particularly Oscar - to ensure that her days include companionship as well as independence. But an unforeseen tragedy upsets Elfrida's tranquillity: Oscar's wife and daughter are killed in a terrible car crash, and he finds himself homeless when his stepchildren claim their dead mother's inheritance.

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....

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher, Winter Solstice (the basis for the TV movie) is the story of five unforgettable characters, lonely and haunted strangers who find love and loyalty as a reborn family of friends during the Christmas holidays.

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher’s Wild Mountain Thyme, a woman learns to forgive her ex—and herself—when she joins him on a journey where she’ll discover love is always a possibility. Oliver Dobbs was a writer first, and a man second. To him other people were...

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.

Enter Rosamunde Pilcher's world of simple joys, of crisp country air and crackling log fires, the pleasures of family reunions and rediscovered friendships. Through thick mist and a cold east wind, Lavinia returns to Scotland. Up at the big house, Mrs Farquhar is dying. Seeing Lachlan again, Lavinia remembers her childhood holidays there: swimming in the loch, the picnics, bottle-feeding the lambs down at the farm and the evenings when they danced reels. Most of all, she remembers Mrs Farquhar's grandson Rory.

Efter mange års ophold i USA vender Jane hjem til det rolige skotske landsted, Elvie, hvor hun tilbragte sin dejlige barndom. Minderne fra Elvie har altid været forbundet med den elegante Sinclair, som hun altid har drømt om at gifte sig med. Men nu, da hun er vendt hjem, opdager hun, at Sinclair er blevet en helt anden mand. Hans charmerende væremåde virker falsk, som om den tjener et bestemt formål, og Jane kan ikke længere stole på ham.

Ben Litton er en genial maler, men en dårlig far. Datteren Emma sendes om 14-årig uden videre på kostskole i Schweiz, hvorefter faderen fuldstændig glemmer hendes eksistens. Emma tvinges til at blive en selvstændig kvinde før tiden, men hun er følelsesmæssigt dybt frustreret. Da faderen slår sig ned i Cornwall, beslutter Emma derfor at slutte sig til ham og forsøge at få det familieliv, hun altid har savnet. Ben Litton er en genial maler, men en dårlig far.

Om at møde den familie, man hele livet har længtes efter, men som viser sig ikke at leve op til ens forventninger. Rebecca Bayliss lever et ensomt og stilfærdigt liv i London, da hun en dag bliver kaldt til sin mors dødsleje. Sin far har Rebecca aldrig kendt, og moderen og hun er gradvist gledet fra hinanden. Men i de sidste timer sammen med sin mor hører Rebecca for første gang om den familie, hun ikke anede, hun havde: bedstefaren i Cornwall, tanten, som hendes mor ikke kunne fordrage, broderen, der døde under krigen.

Caroline og Judy Cliburn har næsten nået rejsens mål, da de overraskes af en snestorm midt ude på det skotske højland. De tvinges til at søge tilflugt på et ensomt beliggende gods, Cairney, og bliver inviteret til at bo på godset, indtil rejsen kan fortsætte. Caroline har svært ved at overskue situationen: De er sneet inde langt ude på landet sammen med en vildtfremmed mand, godsejeren Oliver Cairney, og om et par dage skal Caroline være tilbage i London til sit eget bryllup...

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.

For første gang i sit liv aner Selina Bruce ikke, hvad morgendagen vil bringe - så organiseret, så tjekket, har hendes liv indtil da formet sig. Som en streg slået efter en lineal. Ikke at hun er ked af sit liv, slet ikke, der er bare ikke så mange lyspunkter at se frem til. Så hvad får hende til impulsivt at rejse til en lille spansk ø, efterladende en mildest talt forundret - og fortørnet - forlovet kort før brylluppet? Det må være noget ganske særligt - en far, hun aldrig har kendt, for eksempel, og som hun altid har troet var død.