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Rosamunde Pilcher

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Gender Female
Death4 years ago
Date of birth September 22,1924
Zodiac sign Virgo
Born Lelant
United Kingdom
Date of died February 6,2019
DiedDundee
United Kingdom
Spouse Graham Pilcher
Children Robin Pilcher
Job Novelist
Movies/Shows September
The Shell Seekers
Rosamunde Pilcher: Die zweite Chance
Die Goldene Deutschland
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The Shell Seekers
September
Winter solstice
The Day of the Storm
The Empty House
Coming home
Voices in summer
Flowers In The Rain
Under Gemini
Wild Mountain Thyme
Another View
Snow in April
The Carousel
Sleeping Tiger
The End of the Summer
The Blue Bedroom and Other Stories
The world of Rosamunde Pilcher
Christmas With Rosamunde Pilcher
Three complete novels
A Time to Remember: The Empty House and The Day of the Storm
Young Bar
Rosamunde Pilcher
Das Blaue Zimmer
The Rosamunde Pilcher Omnibus
Retour au pays
Three Books by Rosamunde Pilcher
On My Own
Retour sur la lande
Schlafender Tiger. Roman. ( rororo Stars).
Tomillo Silvestre
September: Another View ; The Empty House
Blumen in Regen
Stories from Flowers in the Rain
Tea with the Professor Gilbert
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Rosamunde Pilcher Three Complete Novels: The Shell Seekers/Sleeping Tiger/The Day of the Storm
Another View; The End of Summer
A New Collection of Three Complete Novels
Voces de verano
Lazos profundos
Wrzesien
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Rosamunde Pilcher Life story


Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE was a British writer of romance novels, mainstream fiction, and short stories, from 1949 until her retirement in 2000. Her novels sold over 60 million copies worldwide. Early in her career she was also published under the pen name Jane Fraser.

Rosamunde Pilcher, author of The Shell Seekers, dies at 94

Feb 16,2020 2:48 am

Pilcher published her first novel under her own name in 1955

Rosamunde Pilcher , author of The Shell Seekers, has died at the age of 94 following a short illness, her agent has confirmed.

The novelist penned nearly 30 romance and women's fiction books between 1949 and 2000 when she retired from writing.

Born on the North Coast of Cornwall, Pilcher began writing at the age of seven and published her first Short Story at 18.

She once described her books as "frightfully wet little novels".

When she began writing for Mills & Boon in the late 1940s, Her Stories were published under the pseudonym Jane Fraser .

Her first novel as Rosamunde Pilcher , A Secret to Tell, was published in 1955.

The Shell Seekers, considered one of her most famous works, was published in 1988.

It centres on Penelope Keeling, an elderly British woman who reflects on her life and her relationships with her adult children.

The book won her international recognition, becoming one of her biggest successes and selling More Than five million copies Worldwide .

Her books inspired the Four Seasons miniseries in 2008

In 1989 it became the best-selling book In America , the same year Angela Lansbury starred in a TV adaptation.

By the mid 1990s, it was reported that Pilcher was one of the highest-earning women in Britain.

In 2003 The Shell Seekers was nominated by The British public as one of The Top 100 novels in the BBC's Big Read.

It was also adapted into a stage play in 2005 and a mini-series starring Vanessa Redgrave in 2006.

Pilcher's novels and short stories are especially popular in Germany, where The National TV station ZDF has adapted her works into More Than 100 films.

The author's romanticised outlook on Cornwall became a fixture in German pop culture and led to many German tourists visiting The British coast to experience the quaint and quintessentially British world Pilcher had created.

This led her to winning a British Tourism Award in 2002.

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