He sits outside the series-driven blockbusters so beloved of publishers nowadays: he hasn't created a Harry Potter or an Alex Rider – and I admire him for resisting that. Pilcher is now a favourite author and I am planning on which book to read next, I just hope it is as good as this one.

You can also read about his life in War Child to War Horse, a collaborative biography with Maggie Fergusson.

Clare's Polwithen and Howell's School Llandaff before going on to Miss Kerr-Sanders' Secretarial College. Her romances are believable and gripping, her twists and turns ring so true to the era and the realities of the times and the war. She went through the waiting-room, which always smelt distressingly of lavatories, and emerged into the unlit lane that lay beyond.

it’s a book filled with nostalgia and the most lovely conversations from a time when people made time for each other and truly engaged in conversation and spending time with each other. We watch her grow, experience her loves and her losses and in a style that few other authors can match, we see, feel and touch the world she lives in. Two sisters, Edna and Hilda by name, who worked for her as cook and house parlourmaid, were equally elderly and unforthcoming, not a bit like darling Phyllis, who did everything for them all at Riverview House, but still found time to play racing demon at the kitchen table and read fortunes with tea-leaves. Judith is a very strong woman who has become strong due to the circumstances of her upbringing, Judith soon realises that her mother is not a strong woman and so she needs to take charge occasionally and help her mother.This is firstly the story of Judith Dunbar but also tells the story of a wonderful family the Carey-Lewises. Hardback, genuine cloth back and spine, printed in full colour throughout on 150gsm matt art paper, 136pp, 230mm x 165mm. Se trata de una historia coral, que nos narra las vivencias de un grupo de personajes entorno a Judith Dunbar, durante los años previos a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, durante ella y justo después; pero es más la historia del día a día que de la batalla en si. With their father missing and their mother lost at sea, Judith must learn to interact with a grieving young girl emotionally scarred by her wartime experiences.

She was fourteen when her mother and younger sister went back to Columbo to rejoin their father, before his move to Singapore. Judith is left behind, at boarding school, and this is where her rather lonely life takes a turn for the better. This is only the second Rosamund Pilcher title I have ever read, and I loved this one as much as The Shell Seekers, for many of the same reasons. As for the epistolary part of the novel, most of the letter writing in the novel was quite bad, almost like it was the same person writing all those letters- a waste of paper.Perhaps Mother had feared an outburst of rebellion and taken the easiest course, but even that didn’t make sense, because Judith had never, in all her life, rebelled against anything. All in all a great listen if you want something quick with a dash of emotion, heat, and some laughs. I could close my eyes and see the Laura Knight image Pilcher described and I knew who Loveday was and who she was to Gus.