Dear Tom

by Jane Fraser

1954. First Edition. 190 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Brown cloth. Library copy, with numbers and call card remnants to front endpaper. Pages are mildly tanned with moderate foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, causing a mildly loose front endpaper. Notable thumb-marking present. Part of dust jacket is stuck to front pastedown. Mild scuffing and pen inscriptions to front endpaper. Small tear to p.6 not affecting text. Occasional small brown spots and dog eared corners. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Moderate tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Moderate water stains to boards. Notable cracking to rear joint. Boards are mildly warped. Book has forward lean.

190 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1954

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. 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. Two years later, she was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

Reviews

[Rebekah · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read this quite a while back, and don't remember much about it. I do remember it was very dated, and could only see a few faint glimmerings of the voice that became Rosamunde Pilcher. I no longer have the book unfortunately so I can't remember much about it. I do remember there were some cringe-worthy aspects to the book.