Her children, now grown, learn that the painting is worth a lot of money, and each give their two cents about what should be done with it. Her parents were her artist father and his much younger French wife. It shows the unconventional life that she has led, from her bohemian childhood and her romance during wartime. He gave her this painting as a wedding present. At the end of Penelope Keeling’s long life, her prized possession is a painting her father made called “The Shell Seekers”. “The Shell Seekers” is a stand alone novel written by Pilcher, and is a family saga that was released in 1988. She has also published short story collections as well as novels released under her own name. Her first novel to be released under her real name of Pilcher was in 1955. Her early novels were written under the Fraser name, but by 1963, she exclusively wrote under the Pilcher name. The Jane Fraser name has ten novels published under it, and eighteen novels under her own name.

It also stayed on New York Times bestseller lists for months, as did the follow up, “September”, another popular novel that she wrote.īesides writing under her real name, she also published some stories under the pen name Jane Fraser. Her breakthrough in the writing game would not come until the late eighties, when she released her twenty-third novel “The Shell Seekers”, a novel that sold over five million copies around the world. Two years after she retired from writing in the year 2000, she was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire.įor Pilcher, writing helped her escape from her daily life, and that it saved her marriage. She is the mother of Robin Pilcher, who is also an author. She moved, with her husband, early on in their marriage and still lives there today. The couple would stay married for almost sixty-three years until his death in 2009, and had four kids together, two sons and two daughters, and fourteen grandchildren. Pilcher was also in the Women’s Royal Naval Service from 1943 until 1946, and late in 1946, she married Graham Hope Pilcher (who also was in the service and was an executive in the jute industry). Pilcher started writing when she was only seven and saw her first story get published when she was eighteen years old. Her father was a British commander and was posted in Burma before she was born. Rosamunde Pilcher is a famous author of romance novels who was born Rosamunde Scott on Septemin Lelant, Cornwall (which is located in the United Kingdom).

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