Polgoon Vineyard near Penzance.I first came across Rosamunde Pilcher when I read The Shell Seekers as part of my BBC Big Reads challenge – and was instantly swept away by the Cornish tale abundant in charm and nostalgia and beloved by a nation of readers. Take your walking boots to visit it the bluebell woods in springtime and climb to the top of Godolphin Hill for stunning views to St Ives, Carn Brea and St Michael’s Mount Vineyards Godolphin House – Medieval Gardens and atmospheric old house – one of the oldest in Cornwall. Prideaux Place Padstow: – An Elizabethan Manor that has played a part in 16 dramas including “Four seasons Winds across the Sea” and “End of Summer” Pencarrow House and Gardens, Wadebridge Georgian Manor “The Red Dress” and 2011 adaptation of “The winery” The Ship Inn was used for “When Fish Smile” Cornwall’s Historic Houses and Gardens This imposing granite harbour which is so often battered by fierce storms in the winter time is a mecca for fish lovers visiting the restaurants that line the harbour in the summertime. Top tip take the scenic railway from Lelant to enjoy at its best Porthlevan St Ives is a former fishing village and Artist colony with fabulous sandy beaches below the maze of narrow alleys and lanes. The former Stannery town from the Tin Mining era, set around a working harbour – take the slip road beside teh Dry dock to explore the time-worn granite pavements of the Historic Chapel Street area including the Admiral Benbow and Penlee House in Morrab Road St Ives Rosamunde Pilcher storiesĬliff top walks above St Ives reveal tucked within the shelter of a sandy bay below Cornish towns and harbours Penzance Sadly I’m updating today to tell you that Rosamunde Pilcher died on the 6th of February 2019 after a short illness. Rosamunde Pilcher wrote her final novel The Winter Solstice before announcing her retirement – how fitting that this novel (and one that is my personal favorite) topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Books that in turn have given rise to the famous TV series that can attract as many as 7 million viewers.

Over the years Rosamunde Pilcher has written 28 romantic novels which in turn sold an incredible 60 million books to the value of an incredible 100 million.

Her first big breakthrough came when her book “The Shell Seekers” topped the New York Times bestseller list for forty-eight weeks. She married in 1946 and went to live in Scotland where she started to write setting her books within her deep observation of her two loves of Cornwall and Scotland. Rosamunde Pilcher was born in 1924 in Lelant in West Cornwall and later attended school in Penzance. About Rosamunde Pilcher – authoress 1924 – 2019

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