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One of the best-selling and most famous sagas of the last four decades, The Shell Seekers is an enduring classic which has touched the hearts of millions worldwide. Set in Gloucestershire, London, Cornwall and Ibiza, and shifting between 1939 and 1985, this poignant drama explores themes of memory, fate, trauma and connection.

En esta magnífica colección de relatos, Rosamunde Pilcher explora con extraordinaria sensibilidad y talento las diversas facetas del alma humana. Una joven a punto de contraer matrimonio recibe unos consejos sorprendentes de su abuela; un niño pequeño se ve obligado a asumir las responsabilidades del cabeza de familia; un marido joven intenta revivir las experiencias de soltero... Historias de pequeños dramas domésticos; relatos de amor e infortunio, de felicidad y desesperación.

Born in Colombo, Judith Dunbar spends her teenage years at boarding school while her beloved mother and younger sister live abroad with her father. 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.

As spring comes to Scotland and the hills burst into life, a dance is planned for September. The invitations summon home the group of people Violet Aird has cared for most in her long life. The oldest, strongest and wisest of them all, she sees Alexa, her vulnerable granddaughter, find love for the first time while the decision to send her little grandson away to school is driving parents Edmund and Virginia even further apart.

A spellbinding collection of 15 stories from multi-million copy internationally best-selling author Rosamunde Pilcher, published posthumously two years after her death. Each of the 15 stories is a perfect slice of romance written with warmth and passion, featuring some wonderfully memorable, smart and feisty female characters that will transport listeners to another time and place.

At her dying mother's bedside, Rebecca Bayliss is shattered to learn of a family she never knew existed. Determined to find them, Rebecca journeys to Boscarva, a beautiful mansion in Cornwall, to meet a family torn by passion and greed. From her grandfather Grenville Bayliss, who is hiding an explosive secret, to a handsome cousin whose kisses are dangerously seductive, to sensual craftsman Joss Gardner, whose past hints of intrigue, Rebecca becomes entangled in a family mystery.

Escape into Rosamunde Pilcher's world, and meet characters who will become instant friends. The big bedroom was lovely: all pale blue and white, satin and muslin, cool and airy, the windows looking out over the garden to the creek. But to 14-year-old Emily, beautiful though it was, it was all wrong. Her stepmother's bedroom now: everything changed since her own mother had died. And stretched out on the bed: Stephanie, very white and pained. The new baby on its way, a month early.

Flora and Rose are identical twins who do not know of each other's existence. Rose has been raised by her frivolous mother with the glossy international jet set. Flora has spent her childhood in the beauty and quiet of her father's Cornish cottage. And then, by chance, they meet. The encounter seems heaven-sent to Rose, who longs to escape from a man she no longer desires. Flora can free her, and, in taking her sister's place, her uneventful life is changed forever.

Caroline Cliburn was to be married next Tuesday, and yet she suspected that gratitude was the wrong reason to become a bride. Perhaps that was why she and her younger brother Jody had taken the long drive north to Scotland in search of her missing brother Angus.... When a sudden spring blizzard leaves them stranded by the roadside, it is the snow that gives both her and a lonely young Scot one last chance to find the healing warmth of love.

Laura, newly married and ever conscious she may be living in the shadow of her husband Alec's first wife, decides to take a holiday with his family in Cornwall. Through the long hot summer days, she is slowly charmed by the beautiful old house and the people she learns to know and love. In time her uneasy spirit is soothed by the sparkling, brilliant sea, and her restless heart finally calmed.

Emma Litton can't get on with her life until she finds out just what place she has in her father's heart. She'd been at school in Europe since she was 14, then found a job in Paris, always wondering what her famous artist father was doing in Japan or America or at their cottage in Cornwall. Even after she meets Robert Morrow, a handsome gallery owner, and rediscovers her stepbrother, Christo, she still feels compelled to probe into the truth about her past.

Virginia Keile has a secret dream. To have a second chance at loving the tall, handsome Cornish farmer she met - and foolishly lost - the heady summer she was a debutante. Life has taught Virginia a great deal in 27 years - about wedding a titled bachelor picked out by her mother, about a lonely marriage that ended in her husband's accidental death, and about nearly losing her children to her husband's mother and bossy Nanny. Now she has come back to picturesque Cornwall to rent a battered seaside cottage.

Prue is intelligent, artistic, independent - and bored. Pressured by her mother to make a conventional and dull marriage, she is delighted to escape London and seek retreat with her eccentric and bohemian aunt in Cornwall. A chance encounter with an attractive young artist on the seashore leads to day after idyllic summer's day of exploring the Cornish countryside and coast. But there is something troubling Daniel, and Prue - now deeply entangled - feels compelled to discover what it is.

Are you brave enough to wake the sleeping tiger? Selina Bruce has impulsively left behind her lawyer fiancé in London and flown alone to a tiny island off the Spanish coast. She is searching for the father she has never known, but what she finds is an unexpected truth about herself and the man she plans to marry. For exotic San Antonio offers Selina more than the penetrating brilliance of the noonday sun. It offers the mysterious George Dyer, who holds the key not only to her past...but to her heart.

Om at møde den familie, man hele livet har længtes efter, men som viser sig ikke at leve op til ens forventninger. Rebecca Bayliss lever et ensomt og stilfærdigt liv i London, da hun en dag bliver kaldt til sin mors dødsleje. Sin far har Rebecca aldrig kendt, og moderen og hun er gradvist gledet fra hinanden. Men i de sidste timer sammen med sin mor hører Rebecca for første gang om den familie, hun ikke anede, hun havde: bedstefaren i Cornwall, tanten, som hendes mor ikke kunne fordrage, broderen, der døde under krigen.

Can you ever re-create that first great love? Victoria Bradshaw fell in love with London playwright Oliver Dobbs when she was just 18. But he left her and disappeared from her life. Now, years later, he is a widower standing on her doorstep with his two-year-old son in his arms. And Victoria is foolish enough to want to take him back. Their early spring journey to a castle in Scotland becomes an odyssey of emotional discovery....

Penelope Keelings liebster Besitz ist ein Gemälde mit dem Titel "Die Muschelsucher". Als ihre Kinder erfahren, dass das Werk ein Vermögen wert ist, entbrennt heftiger Streit darum. Doch Penelope kann sich nicht von dem Bild trennen. Zu viele Erinnerungen sind damit verbunden: an ihre unkonventionelle Kindheit in Cornwall, an die Kriegsjahre - und an ihre große Liebe.

"Es wird allmählich Zeit, dass du heiratest." Prue Shackleton, jung, schön und eigenwillig, kann die Ermahnungen ihrer Mutter nicht mehr hören. Statt sich um einen vielversprechenden Heiratskandidaten zu kümmern, fährt sie kurz entschlossen zu ihrer exzentrischen Tante ans Meer. In der einsamen Landschaft Cornwalls findet Prue Ruhe und Abstand. Doch damit ist es vorbei, als sie dem jungen Künstler Daniel begegnet.

Virginia Keile har en hemmelig drøm om en ny chance for at erobre den høje, smukke landmands hjerte; ham hun mødte - og mistede - en sommer i Cornwall for længe siden. Den 27-årige Virginia har lært en masse om livet; om at gifte sig med en mand, hun ikke elskede, om et ensomt ægteskab, der endte med hendes mands pludselige og voldsomme død, og om næsten at miste sine børn til sin forhadte svigermor. Men nu er hun vendt tilbage til det smukke Cornwall, hvor hun har lejet en hytte ved havet til sig selv og sine børn. Måske kan hun nu fylde det tomme hus med kærlighed.

Sitting on a California beach at summer's end, Jane Marsh thinks back to her childhood at the estate called Elvie in a remote corner of Scotland. She remembers not only the heather-covered hills and the lonesome loch but her grandmother...and, of course, Sinclair. She has secretly dreamed of marrying rakishly handsome Sinclair and settling at Elvie forever. Then an urgent visit from her grandmother's lawyer becomes the catalyst for her return to Scotland, where waiting for her is passion, not gentle love....