Rosamunde Pilcher: Box Set #2. September / The Blue Bedroom / Voices In Summer

by Rosamunde Pilcher

September; The Blue Bedroom; Voices in Summer. 3 Vols.

Paperback

About the author

Rosamunde Scott was born on 22 September 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall, England, UK, daughter of Helen and Charles Scott, a British commander. Just before her birth her father was posted in Burma, her mother remained in England. She attended St. Clare's Polwithen and Howell's School Llandaff before going on to Miss Kerr-Sanders' Secretarial College. She began writing when she was seven and published her first short story when she was 18. From 1943 through 1946, Pilcher served with the Women's Naval Service. On 7 December 1946, she married Graham Hope Pilcher, a war hero and jute industry executive who died in March 2009. They moved to Dundee, Scotland, where she remained until her death in 2019. They had two daughters and two sons, and fourteen grandchildren. Her son, Robin Pilcher, is also a novelist.

In 1949, her first book, a romance novel, was published by Mills & Boon, under the pseudonym Jane Fraser. She published a further ten novels under that name. In 1955, she also began writing under her married name Rosamunde Pilcher, by 1965 she her own name to all of her novels. In 1996, her novel Coming Home won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by Romantic Novelists' Association. She retired from writing in 2000 following publication of Winter Solstice. Two years later, she was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

Reviews

[Linda Paupst · Rating 5 out of 5]

This Harvard & Cambridge educated, British author's books are a wonder of living life with practicality, common sense, humour, enormous curiosity and lots of love. 'Shell Seakers' was the first of her books I read and I have been addicted to every one since. They are my prescription for living my life (though far from successfully). I love how her characters find complete satisfaction in her garden, her adventures, even in her own kitchen - what we now call 'living in the moment'.. Family problems are settled with conviction, self-worth, fairness. I love being in that place, in that time, in the pages of every one of her books.

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love..Love...Love!!! All her books just take you away to the location in your mind...you are there, and you just relate to her real, and often quirky characters..

[Sylvia Hepler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pilcher captures both my attention and my heart every time! I just love her short stories in The Blue Bedroom, in particular.

[Cathi Russell · Rating 5 out of 5]

I so love Rosemund Pilcher's voice and miss it dreadfully. Her books are like old friends that you light up around.

[Jane · Rating 1 out of 5]

I think the Shell Seekers was the big novel and I cant recommend highly enough

this was like Mills & Boone - different dimension ! - I wont read any more ,

[Kay Jamieson · Rating 4 out of 5]

All of Rosamund's Books are great---not listed with GoodReads

[Franziska Self Fisken · Rating 5 out of 5]

Vivid depictions of London, Porthkerris, Cornwall and other parts of the UK. Varied characters sympathetically drawn. Some satisfying hot water bottle romances.