Pilcher draws you into a story by the skillful introduction of her characters. Now, that’s not to say it was a horrible book in fact, I loved the first half of the book to pieces. This book, however, fell short of the mark and landed more in the territory I had been trying to bypass. There was so much depth to her characters and the writing was so intelligent and tasteful that I had to reevaluate my preconceived notions. At that point I laid aside my prior misconception that Pilcher wrote only ‘chick-lit’, a genre towards which I am not personally drawn. Coming Home was my next encounter with her work and I was equally enthralled. I adored that book! I immediately added nearly all of her novels to my list of must-read books. I happily ‘discovered’ Rosamunde Pilcher less than two years ago when I read The Shell Seekers. Two years later, she was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). She retired from writing in 2000 following publication of Winter Solstice. In 1996, her novel Coming Home won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by Romantic Novelists' Association. In 1955, she also began writing under her married name Rosamunde Pilcher, by 1965 she her own name to all of her novels. She published a further ten novels under that name. In 1949, her first book, a romance novel, was published by Mills & Boon, under the pseudonym Jane Fraser. Her son, Robin Pilcher, is also a novelist. They had two daughters and two sons, and fourteen grandchildren. They moved to Dundee, Scotland, where she remained until her death in 2019. On 7 December 1946, she married Graham Hope Pilcher, a war hero and jute industry executive who died in March 2009. From 1943 through 1946, Pilcher served with the Women's Naval Service.

She began writing when she was seven and published her first short story when she was 18. Clare's Polwithen and Howell's School Llandaff before going on to Miss Kerr-Sanders' Secretarial College. Just before her birth her father was posted in Burma, her mother remained in England. Rosamunde Scott was born on 22 September 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall, England, UK, daughter of Helen and Charles Scott, a British commander.

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