This book had me in tears at times, it made me laugh, it made me think and much more. The book is even better than the TV series but I must admit the TV series is very close to the book and the actors were brilliantly matched up with their book equivalents. I was so excited to read this book as I remember watching the TV series with Joanna Lumley and a very young Keira Knightly when I was younger and just thinking how glamorous and beautiful everything was, so when I saw the book on Kindle for £1.99 I jumped at the chance to buy it. As the book goes on we learn about the other characters in the book. The book follows Judith’s life through the second world war and leaves Judith just after the war is over. Whilst at school Judith meets her lifelong friend Loveday and eventually meets her family. Her mother, father and younger sister Jess live abroad, hence why she is at boarding school and it is arranged she will spend the holidays with her aunt. The book is centred around Judith Dunbar and the reader is introduced to her when she is about to start boarding school. I just could not put it down and was worried it would be over too quickly so I actually started to pace myself. It has been a long time since I have finished a book and immediately wanted to read it again.

This book is just beautiful, I loved every moment of it and it has gone straight on my all time favourites list. And Judith herself has far to travel before at last. But it is a flame soon to be extinguished in the gathering storm of war. With their generosity and kindness, Judith grows from naive girl to confident young woman, basking in the warm affection of a surrogate family whose flame burns brightly. She falls in love too with the generous Carey-Lewises themselves. When her new friend Loveday Carey-Lewis invites Judith home for the weekend to Nancherrow, the Carey-Lewises’ beautiful estate on the Cornish coast, it is love at first sight. Pilcher retired from writing in 2000, two years later she received her OBE.īorn in Colombo, Judith Dunbar spends her teenage years at boarding school, while her beloved mother and younger sister live abroad with her father. In 1955 she published her first novel under her own name, by 1965 she had dropped the pseudonym entirely.

In 1949 Pilcher’s first novel was published under the pseudonym Jane Fraser, she went on to publish a further ten novels under that name.

In 1946 she married her Graham Hope Pilcher and they moved to Dundee, Scotland together. From 1943 to 1946 she served with the Women’s Royal Naval Service. She began writing when she was 7 and published her first short story at the age of 15. Rosamunde Pilcher was born on the 22nd September 1924 in Cornwall.

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