Take a photo of a barcode or cover
sue_loves_to_read 's review for:
Winter Solstice
by Rosamunde Pilcher
Elfrida Phipps, once of London's stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in hopes of making a new life for herself. Gradually she settled into the comfortable familiarity of village life -- shopkeepers knowing her tastes, neighbors calling her by name -- still she finds herself lonely.
Oscar Blundell gave up his life as a musician in order to marry Gloria. They have a beautiful daughter, Francesca, and it is only because of their little girl that Oscar views his sacrificed career as worthwhile.
Carrie returns from Australia at the end of an ill-fated affair with a married man to find her mother and aunt sharing a home and squabbling endlessly. With Christmas approaching, Carrie agrees to look after her aunt's awkward and quiet teenage daughter, Lucy, so that her mother might enjoy a romantic fling in America.
Sam Howard is trying to pull his life back together after his wife has left him for another. He is without home and without roots, all he has is his job. Business takes him to northern Scotland, where he falls in love with the lush, craggy landscape and set his sights on a house.
It is the strange rippling effects of a tragedy that will bring these five characters together in a large, neglected estate house near the Scottish fishing town of Creagan.
This was recommended to me as a pre-Christmas read and it's certainly heart-warming although very predictable. Also I found it difficult to place the era, there were references to laptops and mobile phones but I honestly felt that most of the description would fit more easily into the 50s/60s. Anyway, it gave me a pleasant enough couple of days especially as it was snowing outside whilst I was reading descriptions of huge snowdrifts in the book.
Oscar Blundell gave up his life as a musician in order to marry Gloria. They have a beautiful daughter, Francesca, and it is only because of their little girl that Oscar views his sacrificed career as worthwhile.
Carrie returns from Australia at the end of an ill-fated affair with a married man to find her mother and aunt sharing a home and squabbling endlessly. With Christmas approaching, Carrie agrees to look after her aunt's awkward and quiet teenage daughter, Lucy, so that her mother might enjoy a romantic fling in America.
Sam Howard is trying to pull his life back together after his wife has left him for another. He is without home and without roots, all he has is his job. Business takes him to northern Scotland, where he falls in love with the lush, craggy landscape and set his sights on a house.
It is the strange rippling effects of a tragedy that will bring these five characters together in a large, neglected estate house near the Scottish fishing town of Creagan.
This was recommended to me as a pre-Christmas read and it's certainly heart-warming although very predictable. Also I found it difficult to place the era, there were references to laptops and mobile phones but I honestly felt that most of the description would fit more easily into the 50s/60s. Anyway, it gave me a pleasant enough couple of days especially as it was snowing outside whilst I was reading descriptions of huge snowdrifts in the book.