The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher Summary and Reviews
|
List Price: Our Price: $5.15 You Save: $3.84 (43%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $0.01 (click here) Category: Book See more book details and other editions |
|---|
Book Reviews of The Shell Seekers
Book Review: A must Read
Summary: 5 Stars
This has to be one of my all-time favorites. I was introduced to this book several years ago and loved it. As with any yearly tradition, I pull my worn copy from my bookshelf once a year and curl up with this book. Ms. Pilcher spins a marvelous tale that weaves you in and around the characters in this book and no matter how many times I read it, I'm always left wanting more.Book Review: All-time favorite
Summary: 5 Stars
This might be my all-time favorite novel. The characters just resonated with me - all of them are flawed in some way, yet you can sympathize with them (except perhaps Penelope's son Neal, who eventually redeems himself in the sequel "September"). It doesn't wrap things up neatly with a happy ending, just leaves you yearning - wishing that Penelope had told Olivia about Richard, wishing that Olivia *was* Richard's child, wishing that you were able to live and love as richly as Penelope.Book Review: Amazing story
Summary: 5 Stars
This book I read over 15 yrs. ago and it started a wonderfully rich literary relationship with the talented Rosamunde Pilcher. I now have read all of her books, and each one is fantastic. Just sorry that she is no longer writing.Book Review: Author Inspires Hope to Reader and Wannabe Writers? [BBC 50]
Summary: 5 Stars
After years of working in journalism, this book accounts for many travails of a British wren whose premature marriage, premature pregnancy, and othhit er mistakes of the adolescent heart made her become imprisoned into a marriage of necessity as opposed to love.
Although this is not a pure autobiogrphical homage to the world of the author, it does touch upon other concepts of her life -- being a wren, marrying someone like her flame in the book, high society toughings, a relative who is an artist, and the in laws who not perfect.
Publishing this book in her 60`s can deliver a message to wannabes -- publish your first novel when you are much closer to the sunset than sunrise and you can still have a hot and maybe make a home run in the world of literature. This old woman certainly did by working upon her memories with decades of writing experience.
The Shell Seekers is merely a painting by the protagonbist`s father. But, the simple picture of children picking up shells on the British shore truly encompasses her entire soul. She understands that through a life of less than perfect arrangements and pairings, including some problems with her own children, the happenstance meeting with a young woman and a young Scot trigger memories of the only great months of her life -- those when the fires of passion and love encompassed her very being and made her feel alive for the only true time in her life. She missed that "something" which her parents seemingly grasped without attempt for a marital eternity. Her parents are to be adored, and are by her.
My favorite part of the book kicks in when we leave the modern day for her days in WW II. After that we return to modern day to see how the young lass and Scot`s relationship mirrors many of the protagonist`s own when she was the same age.
My only qualm is the misunderstanding of neurological disease by the boy and maybe the author in this book. Too many people with similar disability do not seek to become recluses and ruin their futures into a hermit`s existence (what the Scot chooses). To the contrary, a vast amount become successful and meaningful citizens of society regardless of the synapse peculiarity. I wish other characters had been capable of saying this to the Scot so that the slanted view was leveled.
Book Review: Beautifully Written
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't believe it took me this long to finally read this book. The writing is first rate, the characters are nicely developed, and the story weaves together brilliantly. This author makes you care about the characters in the story. Bravo!