Rosamunde Pilcher: Winter Solstice, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Winter Solstice
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- Verlag:
- St. Martin's Publishing Group, 12/2015
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781250077462
- Artikelnummer:
- 7096124
- Umfang:
- 528 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 451 g
- Maße:
- 208 x 136 mm
- Stärke:
- 43 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 1.12.2015
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher, Winter Solstice (the basis for the TV movie) is the story of five unforgettable characters, lonely and haunted strangers who find love and loyalty as a reborn family of friends during the Christmas holidays.
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 Austria at the end of an ill-fated affair with a married man to find her mother and sister sharing a home and squabbling endlessly. With Christmas approaching, Carrie agrees to look after her sister'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.
Biografie
Rosamunde Pilcher, geb. 1924 in Lelant/Cornwall, arbeitete zunächst beim Foreign Office und trat während des Zweiten Weltkrieges dem Women's Royal Naval Service bei. 1946 heiratete sie Graham Pilcher und zog nach Dundee/Schottland, wo sie seither wohnt. Rosamunde Pilcher schreibt seit ihrem fünfzehnten Lebensjahr. Ihre Romane haben sie zu einer der erfolgreichsten Autorinnen der Gegenwart gemacht.