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Winter Solstice - Rosamunde Pilcher

Description: ISBN 0340752483 / Author: Rosamunde Pilcher / Genre: Fiction / Elfrida Phipps loves her new life in the pretty Hampshire village. She has ... more

Winter Solstice - Rosamunde Pilcher ... a tiny cottage, her faithful dog Horace and the friendship of the neighbouring Blundells - particularly Oscar - to ensure that her days include companionship as well as independence. But an unforeseen tragedy upsets Elfrida's tranquillity: Oscar's wife and daughter are killed in a terrible car crash and he finds himself homeless when his stepchildren claim their dead mother's inheritance. Oscar and Elfrida take refuge in a rambling house in Scotland which becomes a magnet for various waifs and strays who converge upon it, including an unhappy teenage girl. Elfrida and Oscar, in the evening of their lives, the winter solstice finally brings love and solace.

Newest Review: ... Solstice' is a moving and entirely believable book, which had me gripped almost from the start. When I first read it, nearly ... more

... five years ago now, it was just after Christmas. Despite my best intentions I more-or-less abandoned my kitchen and ignored my family, and read the book in just two days. I was totally caught up in the lives of the characters, and the many subplots which the author weaves together skilfully. Whereas in some of Pilcher's earlier novels I felt that some of the conversations were a little stilted at times, I had no such reservations with this book. By about half-way through, there are people from the age of about ...more

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Rosamunde Pilcher's Winter Solstice [VHS] Release Date: 2005 - 04 - 11, Rating Parental Guidance, Last Update 25.11.2009 05:47	£ 12.99	Free! within 24 hours
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Winter Solstice - Rosamunde Pilcher: Curl up by the fire on a snowy day, and enjoy... (856 words)
by - written on 29/11/05 (Very useful, 501 readings)
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Elfrida is sixty-two, an active and slightly eccentric retired actress. She lives with her dog in a small village, with a few treasured possessions and a lot of memories. She has a few close friends and some much-loved relatives, and enjoys her independence. Not far into the book, Elfrida receives a terrible shock which turns her world upside-down. Shortly afterwards she drives to Scotland with an old friend for some peace; however, other people gradually descend on them or are invited to stay for a few days. A blizzard traps this mixture of people, and they decide to celebrate Christmas together despite Elfrida's wish to keep it very low-key. ... Read the complete review

It's Never Too Late For Love. (410 words)
by - written on 13/11/01 (Very useful, 82 readings)
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Retired actress Elfrida Phipps leaves the hurly-burly of London to enjoy a peaceful life in a small Hampshire village. She settles in well, and becomes good friends with a local couple, Oscar and Gloria Blundell, and their late-in-life young daughter, Francesca.Elfrida looks forward to a happy, tranquil life, content to live out her remaining years in this safe, secure place. And then tragedy befalls Oscar, when his wife and child are killed in a terrible car crash. Griefstricken, and about to be evicted from his home by his stepsons to whom the house was willed by their mother, Oscar decides to flee to Sutherland, where he has part-ownership of a house. Half ... Read the complete review