Whst would your Rosamunde Pilcher life be like?

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I would be living in Cornwall but with a granny in Scotland who I would stay with in September and sometimes for Christmas.
My father was an artist but has died. I do jobs in various offices- nothing that can't be dropped so that I can leave at a moments notice to go to Scotland or Switzerland or somewhere.
I love wearing the red cashmere jumper that I found in the wardrobe of the cornwall house and I look really elegant in it because I am so slim....fragile looking really.
I can whip up a dinner party at a moments notice but it will be around the kitchen table- but my kitchen smells of garlic and herbs and has a huge scrubbed pine table so that's ok.
I would meet my dream man through friends and although he would be much older than me it would be fine because the ideal ages for a couple are for the woman to be half the man's age plus 7.

Tell me about yours!!!

Coming Home is definitely the best. It's one of my comfort books. For once the TV adaptation was matched.

I've just arrived back at my cute little cottage with fabulous scented blowsy garden, in my dilapidated soft top car that I found in the barn. It was so lovely to see darling godmother again. She's stunningly beautiful despite her advancing years, and full of salacious gossip about all the noveau riche she met at the gallery opening of her friends. Such a quaint warehouse in the depths of zone 2 she told me.
As I gather my armfuls of flowers she insisted I simply must have, I held them tight to my red cashmere jumper whilst juggling the bottles of vintage wine she thought would go well with my bohemian supper tonight. After all one must do now a best for one's friends.
Opening the charmingly painted buttercup yellow front door I can see that Mrs B has been and done the house for me. The smell of bees wax and Sicilian lemons (from my trip a short while ago). Such a delight to be so cared for.
Anyway must dash. I need to answer a few emails and package some little homemade items, beautifully with organic tissue paper and ribbon (and just a few dried petals for their glorious scent) so I can keep myself in artisan sourdough and vintage cheeses.
Ciao Bella's

I found a recording of someone reading it! It's pretty close to my summary above. My memory for food is clearly by far the strongest bit of my memory, which figures. I almost wrote that I thought she improvised a chocolate sauce to go with the ice cream and sure enough she does. Well, well. I enjoyed this a lot. https://www.instagram.com/francescabeauman/p/CoFFfWjK9Jr/

I've just downloaded it on audible as I really wanted to read it again! The story is coming back to me including that awful man from the golf club

I downloaded September on audible yesterday to listen to while I cooked but the narrator had given violet Aird a Scottish accent!😲😲

I'm sure I haven't read September....will have to change that!

She does improvise a chocolate sauce from a bar of chocolate that she bought but didn’t have time to eat!

She doesn’t sort the meal out all by herself, as she has a Mrs Plunkett-type housekeeper who stays on to help her. But the twist is that it was the big boss’s wife who had got the date wrong and turned up a day early, and she is very impressed that the main character rose to the occasion 😊

I love this thread.
I am currently wallowing in a re-read of Maeve Binchey (a whole other thread there), but I'll be back to RP very soon.

Sadly I and all around me are deceased due to the extraordinary amount of alcohol everyone consumes before driving.

I am German and her books were made into TV movies for the equivalent of BBC2 for years. I don't think I ever read a book but managed to see some of the movies if we were visiting family.

Honestly, people believe the local GP/teacher/vet are living in mansions overlooking the Cornish coast and everyone is beautiful and charming. Saying that, there were really popular holiday tours to Cornwall where people visit the locations of the movies.

I've watched some of these and find them infuriating as the stories are changed so much and the casting is so terrible!!!

I saw this on Rick Stein's programme

Love this thread..Coming Home and Shellseekers are my favourites. I love them enormously. I do everything enormously like yawning,and hugging and collapsing into chairs. I call everyone darling and tell them how clever they are,and always serve freshly picked raspberries with a jug of thick cream.

In real life I actually have a friend who lives in Balmerino in Scotland!

Thank you for starting this thread @Bigearringsbigsmile

Coming Home is my absolute favourite but, in all honesty, I feel such comfort reading each and every one of her books.

For various reasons I feel isolated in this busy world but RP's characters and imagery rarely fail to lift me. I'm so pleased that there are many of us that feel the same 😊 thanks again @Bigearringsbigsmile

Also planning to revisit RP off the back of this thread. Made me smile 😊

September is one of my favourite books. I still say 'resairved' when we've (not) booked a table

I have never read the books but apart from the grandmother in Scotland and the slim waist you have described my life, though I've given up on the dinner parties and have to buy my own jumpers. I don’t recommend marrying an older artist, you end up nursing them with very little in the bank. And those German readers need to be quick, our much photographed railway station is being ruined by a massize and very unPilcherlike, new bridge.

Am loving this thread

Loving this thread. RP is my go-to when life gets a bit much. Winter Solstice and September are probably my favourites. I think the shorter time frame hits the spot for me.

And no post mortem on the obviously pissed late wife... Did the lovely Oscar bribe the coroner?!

I've just started reading September again snd it still hits the spot after all this time.

@muddyford can you write the sequel please?

Ooh, there's a nice winter project! Also late wife hadn't updated her will upon marriage and her two sons got everything. IRL that wouldn't have happened as the will was invalidated by the marriage. Could have a lawyer finding this all out, Oscar gets mega bucks and buys Corryfield back from his creepy cousin. Carrie and Sam end up in the Estate House.

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