Winter Solstice

Very Good first edition, first printing hardcover. Boards are clean, with light rubbing around the edges. The dust jacket is unclipped and unmarked, with matching light rubbing at the edges. Pages are clean, deckle edged and appear unread. Flaws are one light stain at the lower front of the text block and a remainder mark along the bottom edge of the pages. First edition, first printing (Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press, August 2000), the final novel Pilcher published before retiring from writing. Rosamunde Pilcher was a British novelist born in Cornwall who lived near Dundee, Scotland, and her books have sold over 60 million copies worldwide. She is best known for The Shell Seekers, and Coming Home won the Romantic Novelists’ Association award in 1996. In Winter Solstice, Elfrida Phipps, a retired actress in her early sixties, settles in the Hampshire village of Dibton. A tragedy then brings five lonely and very different people to a large, neglected estate house near the Scottish fishing town of Creagan, where their lives come together on the shortest day of the year. A wonderful winter read, and a good copy for a Pilcher collection.