BLOGWORDS – Tuesday 20 May 2025 – TUESDAY REVIEWS-DAY – BOOK REVIEW – SEPTEMBER by ROSAMUND PILCHER

BLOGWORDS – Tuesday 20 May 2025 – TUESDAY REVIEWS-DAY – BOOK REVIEW – SEPTEMBER by ROSAMUND PILCHER

TUESDAY REVIEWS-DAY - BOOK REVIEW – SEPTEMBER by ROSAMUND PILCHER

 

THE BOOK

 

THE BLURB

A place you will never forget

Rosamunde Pilcher's Scotland...where the fields flourish with greenery, the bills bloom with purple, and the lochs glitter with the bright blue of the sky.

A time you will never forget

September...when the heather is in full flower, the first chill of autumn cools the air, and the countryside stirs with the hunt, balls, dinner parties, and dance.

A novel you will never forget 

THE AUTHOR

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 (OBE).

 

MY REVIEW

Sit back, kick your feet up, and settle to meet the people of the fictional village of Strathcroy, Scotland. You’ll meet Archie Blair, Lord of Balmerino, Virginia Aird, Violet Aird, Mrs. Ishak, Verena Steynton, Noel Keeling, and Edie Findhorn and visit places called Corriehill, Pennyburn, Balnaid, and Creagan Dubh. Like going on a hike through the countryside, the author takes you on a sweeping tour of the Scotland in her story. Like sitting down to afternoon tea, she introduces you to the cast of characters. (I have to admit, though, it took me a bit to keep straight who was who.)

A rich tale, with overlapping and interwoven threads, September pulls the reader into the lives of the people you meet in its pages. Tugging at heartstrings, waiting (reading) anxiously for a little boy to make his way home, wondering why Pandora suddenly decided to come home after 30 years…

September is a beautiful story, beautifully told, with a twist or two this reader didn’t see coming.

 

 

ROBIN’S FEATHERS

ALL | THE | FEATHERS!

 

 

 

I purchased this book and offer my review of my own free will. The opinions expressed in my review are my own honest thoughts and reaction to this book.

 

 

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