Rosamunde Pilcher reminisces about an unexpectedly special Christmas celebration and shares other bits of Pilcher holiday lore, as well as their favorite Christmas carols. There are also stunning images of Scotland in all of its delicate December beauty.
Share in the Pilcher family's laughter and joy through the season as they tell stories, play in the snow, sing carols, and simply enjoy being in each other's company.This handsome book is filled with photographs of the Pilchers as they celebrate the holiday- wrapping gifts, decorating the tree, savoring a fine Christmas dinner. From the quiet preparations of writing her holiday greetings to the sweet smells rising from her kitchen as she bakes the cakes and cookies her children and grandchildren look forward to year after year, the entire family joins in to prepare the home for the arrival of friends. Rosamunde Pilcher, the beloved author of The Shell Seekers and Coming Home, invites you to share the magic of the Christmas season with her and her family as they celebrate the holiday in timeless Scottish tradition. Winter Solstice is a novel of love, loyalty and rebirth. Rosamunde Pilcher's long-awaited return to the page will warm the hearts of readers both old and new. It is in this house, on the shortest day of the year, that the lives of five people will come together and be forever changed. 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. He is without home and without roots, all he has is his job. 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. 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. They have a beautiful daughter, Francesca, and it is only because of their little girl that Oscar views his sacrificed career as worthwhile.
Oscar Blundell gave up his life as a musician in order to marry Gloria. Gradually she settled into the comfortable familiarity of village life - shopkeepers knowing her tastes, neighbors calling her by name - still she finds herself lonely.
In Winter Solstice Rosamunde Pilcher brings her readers into the lives of five very different people.Elfrida Phipps, once of London's stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in hopes of making a new life for herself.
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