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Summary: Rosamunde Pilcher Greatly Improved with Age
Review: Although I would recommend that any fan of Rosamunde Pilcher read this book, I have to say it is perhaps my least favorite of all of hers. Selina, the heroine, is naive and impulsive and does not come across as the strong female character we get in Mrs. Pilcher's later works. Selina sets off from England to find the father she never knew and was told was dead. Because of a photo on a book jacket, she thinks her father is a writer living in Spain. When she arrives unannounced he tells her in no uncertain terms that he is not her father and she needs to go back to London. Selina cannot seem to leave this man and even hides her passport when he forces her to go to the airport. I was shocked when I learned what the real connection between this young girl and this man was. Because it is not set in England or Scotland as most of her novels are, we miss the wonderful descriptive setting Mrs. Pilcher is noted for. This was Mrs. Pilcher's first novel under her own name and was first published in 1967. Although nowhere near the standards she set with "The Shell Seekers," "September," and "Coming Home," it is a short and worthwhile read for her legions of fans, of which I am most definitely a part.
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Summary: Rosamunde Pilcher Greatly Improved with Age
Review: Although I would recommend that any fan of Rosamunde Pilcher read this book, I have to say it is perhaps my least favorite of all of hers. Selina, the heroine, is naive and impulsive and does not come across as the strong female character we get in Mrs. Pilcher's later works. Selina sets off from England to find the father she never knew and was told was dead. Because of a photo on a book jacket, she thinks her father is a writer living in Spain. When she arrives unannounced he tells her in no uncertain terms that he is not her father and she needs to go back to London. Selina cannot seem to leave this man and even hides her passport when he forces her to go to the airport. I was shocked when I learned what the real connection between this young girl and this man was. Because it is not set in England or Scotland as most of her novels are, we miss the wonderful descriptive setting Mrs. Pilcher is noted for. This was Mrs. Pilcher's first novel under her own name and was first published in 1967. Although nowhere near the standards she set with "The Shell Seekers," "September," and "Coming Home," it is a short and worthwhile read for her legions of fans, of which I am most definitely a part.
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Summary: Soothing Story
Review: I enjoyed getting to know Selina & George. I did not want the book to end!
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Summary: Soothing Story
Review: I enjoyed getting to know Selina & George. I did not want the book to end!
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Summary: Pass!
Review: I really like Pilcher but this book is... bad, there's no other word. The characters simply don't stand up. We begin with interaction between Selina and her fiancé and right away, we wonder why on earth he should be his fiancé and never get a valid answer.
Selina gets on my nerves with her lack of character, her stubbornness, helplesness and lack of personality. George Dyer acts like a jerk. We never get to understand how they can ever become attracted to each other when they're presented to us as both so annoying. Maybe that's the key: they'll make a perfectly annoying pair.
An ordinary, clumsily written book that doesn't do any justice to the author of The shell seekers.
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Summary: Pass!
Review: I really like Pilcher but this book is... bad, there's no other word. The characters simply don't stand up. We begin with interaction between Selina and her fiancé and right away, we wonder why on earth he should be his fiancé and never get a valid answer.
Selina gets on my nerves with her lack of character, her stubbornness, helplesness and lack of personality. George Dyer acts like a jerk. We never get to understand how they can ever become attracted to each other when they're presented to us as both so annoying. Maybe that's the key: they'll make a perfectly annoying pair.
An ordinary, clumsily written book that doesn't do any justice to the author of The shell seekers.
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Summary: Pass!
Review: Rosamund Pilcher writes the most engrossing tales with strongly drawn characters and rich plots, but this is by far her weakest tale. It is certainly entertaining enough in a gentle way, but only as an average romance, and nothing else. Even there it begins to flounder, as I found myself unconvinced of the growing feelings between the characters, and found the ending to be flat and quick, almost as if she had run out of ideas.If you are reading this review, please do not be put off - Pilcher is one of my favourite authors and I would rate all of her other books 4 to 5 stars. Find "The Shell Seekers" and be enchanted.
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Summary: A gentle tale but definitely not Pilcher's best
Review: Rosamund Pilcher writes the most engrossing tales with strongly drawn characters and rich plots, but this is by far her weakest tale. It is certainly entertaining enough in a gentle way, but only as an average romance, and nothing else. Even there it begins to flounder, as I found myself unconvinced of the growing feelings between the characters, and found the ending to be flat and quick, almost as if she had run out of ideas. If you are reading this review, please do not be put off - Pilcher is one of my favourite authors and I would rate all of her other books 4 to 5 stars. Find "The Shell Seekers" and be enchanted.
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Summary: Funny and touching
Review: This was actually one of my favorite Rosamunde Pilcher books. I certainly agree that it's not quite on a par with The Shell Seekers, which is one of my favorite novels of all time. This novel does lack some flow, but has some great, funny scenes. My favorite is the one when George walks in and finds Selina in his house and the conversation that ensues before she tells him she thinks he may be her father. If you're a Rosamunde Pilcher fan, (and even if you haven't "met" her yet) this is worth reading.
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