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Rosamunde Pilcher

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Born: September 21 1924

Died: 0505 02 20192019

Rosamunde Scott was born on 22 September 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall, England, UK, daughter of Helen and Charles Scott, a British commander. Just before her birth her father was posted in Burma, her mother remained in England. She attended St. Clare's Polwithen and Howell's School Llandaff before going on to Miss Kerr-Sanders' Secretarial College. She began writing when she was seven and published her first short story when she was 18. From 1943 through 1946, Pilcher served with the Women's Naval Service. On 7 December 1946, she married Graham Hope Pilcher, a war hero and jute industry executive who died in March 2009. They moved to Dundee, Scotland, where she remained until her death in 2019. They had two daughters and two sons, and fourteen grandchildren. Her son, Robin Pilcher, is also a novelist.

In 1949, her first book, a romance novel, was published by Mills & Boon, under the pseudonym Jane Fraser. She published a further ten novels under that name. In 1955, she also began writing under her married name Rosamunde Pilcher, by 1965 she her own name to all of her novels. In 1996, her novel Coming Home won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by Romantic Novelists' Association. She retired from writing in 2000 following publication of Winter Solstice. Two years later, she was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire .

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Rosamunde Pilcher

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Books from Rosamunde Pilcher

The Shell Seekers

Winter Solstice

September

Coming Home

Voices in Summer

Wild Mountain Thyme

The End of Summer

The Carousel

The Day of the Storm

The Empty House

Under Gemini

The Empty House

Coming Home

The End of Summer

Sleeping Tiger

Snow In April

The Blue Bedroom and Other Stories

Flowers in the Rain

The World of Rosamunde Pilcher

La casa vuota