![]() ![]() But Elfrida’s cousin-once-removed Carrie has returned to the UK after the devastating end to a love affair. It’s mid-December and they have no plans to celebrate Christmas - they just need to get away. She then goes on holiday in Cornwall to stay with her favourite cousin and his family, and returns to devastating, shocking news.Ī few weeks later, Elfrida and her friend Oscar set off for the North of Scotland, to a house which he half-owns. ![]() ![]() I will skate over the first chapters of the book, which set the scene of her life and local friendships. But it’s my only peeve above this wonderful book, which I loved both times I read it previously, and have just finished again.Įlfrida has retired to a small cottage in a Hampshire town. As I approach that age myself, I feel slightly disturbed that she and others consider people in their sixties to be old. When I first read this book I thought of her as elderly, as indeed she describes herself, although she’s lively and active. It feels like one of her long saga-type stories, although the action takes place over the period of just a few months.Įlfrida is the main character. ![]() It was Pilcher’s last novel, published in the year 2000 when she was 76. The time had come to read ‘Winter Solstice’, which I last read in 2004. She retired eighteen years ago, and since then I have re-read her books at least once, and am doing so again, interspersed with others. I have enjoyed every book I have read by Rosamunde Pilcher. ![]()
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