winter solstice

in winter Solstice Rosamunde Pilcher Brings Her Readers Into The Lives Of Five Very Different People.... elfrida Phipps, Once Of London's Stage, Moved To The English Village Of Dibton In Hopes Of Making A New Life For Herself. Gradually She Settled Into The Comfortable Familiarity Of Village Life — Shopkeepers Knowing Her Tastes, Neighbors Calling Her By Name — Still She Finds Herself Lonely. oscar Blundell Gave Up His Life As A Musician In Order To Marry Gloria. They Have A Beautiful Daughter, Francesca, And It Is Only Because Of Their Little Girl That Oscar Views His Sacrificed Career As Worthwhile. carrie Returns From Australia At The End Of An Ill-fated Affair With A Married Man To Find Her Mother And Aunt Sharing A Home And Squabbling Endlessly. With Christmas Approaching, Carrie Agrees To Look After Her Aunt's Awkward And Quiet Teenage Daughter, Lucy, So That Her Mother Might Enjoy A Romantic Fling In America. sam Howard Is Trying To Pull His Life Back Together After His Wife Has Left Him For Another. He Is Without Home And Without Roots, All He Has Is His Job. Business Takes Him To Northern Scotland, Where He Falls In Love With The Lush, Craggy Landscape And Set His Sights On A House. it Is The Strange Rippling Effects Of A Tragedy That Will Bring These Five Characters Together In A Large, Neglected Estate House Near The Scottish Fishing Town Of Creagan. it Is In This House, On The Shortest Day Of The Year, That The Lives Of Five People Will Come Together And Be Forever Changed. Rosamunde Pilcher's Long-awaited Return To The Page Will Warm The Hearts Of Readers Both Old And New. winter Solstice Is A Novel Of Love, Loyalty And Rebirth. usa Today ...a Comforting Book In Which Life Is Sweet And Survival Is The Means To A Happy Ending. Readers Have Waited Five Years For A New Pilcher Book, And They May Find So Much Enjoyment In Winter Solstice That They'll Want To Revisit Some Of Her Other Books... Elfrida Phipps loves her new life in the 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. 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. It could be a recipe for disaster. But somehow the Christmas season weaves its magical spell and for Elfrida and Oscar, in the evening of their lives, the winter solstice brings love and solace Elfrida Phipps, once on the London stage and retired at 62, never anticipates going off with a man. But after a devastating tragedy, church organist Oscar Blundell asks for her companionship. So with her brown-and-white dog in tow, Elfrida begins her journey, not knowing that joining her and Oscar at a rundown Victorian house in Scotland will be a young woman nursing a broken heart, a teenager escaping an unhappy home, and a stranger arriving during a snowstorm. Now these five very different people form an unexpected circle of friends that will forever change their lives... Before Elfrida Phipps left London for good and moved to the country, she made a trip to the Batteresea Dogs' Home, and returned with a canine companion. Five people buffeted by life's difficulties come together at a rundown estate house in Northern Scotland during a revelatory Winter Solstice