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La elegante pluma de Rosamunde Pilcher recrea un microcosmos de sentimientos enmarcados en unas complejas relaciones familiares. Penelope Stern, protagonista de esta historia, es hija de un cotizado pintor de fama internacional. Su estabilidad afectiva depende de una serie de hechos ocurridos en el pasado. Ha convivido dolorosamente con sus secuelas, pero ahora está dispuesta a unir todos los cabos sueltos. Y no cejará en su empeño hasta conseguir comprenderse a sí misma y a los miembros de su familia.

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.

Artist's daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly loved. She has brought up three children - and learned to accept them as they are. Yet she is far too energetic and independent to settle sweetly into pensioned-off old age.

Enter Rosamunde Pilcher's world of simple joys, of crisp country air and crackling log fires, the pleasures of family reunions and rediscovered friendships. Through thick mist and a cold east wind, Lavinia returns to Scotland. Up at the big house, Mrs Farquhar is dying. Seeing Lachlan again, Lavinia remembers her childhood holidays there: swimming in the loch, the picnics, bottle-feeding the lambs down at the farm and the evenings when they danced reels. Most of all, she remembers Mrs Farquhar's grandson Rory.

Det store soveværelse var smukt. Alt var holdt i sart blåt og hvidt, i satin og musselin. Det var køligt og friskt, og fra vinduerne var der udsigt over dalen. Men uanset skønheden virkede alting forkert på den fjortenårige Emily, for efter hendes mors død var det nu blevet hendes stedmors soveværelse. Pludselig en dag ligger stedmoren, Stephanie, hjælpeløs på sengen. En baby er på vej, og Emily er nødt til at tage affære, eftersom hendes far er ude på forretningsrejse... Det blå værelse er en af de dejlige noveller i denne bog.

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.

Efter mange års ophold i USA vender Jane hjem til det rolige skotske landsted, Elvie, hvor hun tilbragte sin dejlige barndom. Minderne fra Elvie har altid været forbundet med den elegante Sinclair, som hun altid har drømt om at gifte sig med. Men nu, da hun er vendt hjem, opdager hun, at Sinclair er blevet en helt anden mand. Hans charmerende væremåde virker falsk, som om den tjener et bestemt formål, og Jane kan ikke længere stole på ham.

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.

Ben Litton er en genial maler, men en dårlig far. Datteren Emma sendes om 14-årig uden videre på kostskole i Schweiz, hvorefter faderen fuldstændig glemmer hendes eksistens. Emma tvinges til at blive en selvstændig kvinde før tiden, men hun er følelsesmæssigt dybt frustreret. Da faderen slår sig ned i Cornwall, beslutter Emma derfor at slutte sig til ham og forsøge at få det familieliv, hun altid har savnet. Ben Litton er en genial maler, men en dårlig far.

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.

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.

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.

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....

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.

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.

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.

Elfrida Phipps loves her new life in her pretty Hampshire village. She has 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.

A place you will never forget. Rosamunde Pilcher's Scotland...where the fields flourish with greenery, the bills bloom with purple, and the lochs glitter with the bright blue of the sky. A time you will never forget. September...when the heather is in full flower, the first chill of autumn cools the air, and the countryside stirs with the hunt, balls, dinner parties, and dance. Rosamunde Pilcher's September...a story of homecomings and heartbreaks, friendships, betrayals, forgiveness, and love.