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Winter solstice : a novel

Elfrida Phipps moves to a country village seeking tranquility, but is quickly forced to flee to northern Scotland where she and various other refugees discover the healing power of the Christmas season.

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  • "Winter solstice"@en
  • "Rosamunde Pilcher's Winter solstice"

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  • "Elfrida Phipps moves to a country village seeking tranquility, but is quickly forced to flee to northern Scotland where she and various other refugees discover the healing power of the Christmas season."@en
  • "When Oscar Blundell suffers a double tragedy, he accepts an invitation to take over a rambling old house in Scotland, taking Elfrida Phipps, his friend and neighbour, with him. As the house becomes a magnet for waifs and strays, it seems to weave a magic spell for Elfrida and Oscar."@en
  • "Five people buffeted by life's difficulties come together at a rundown estate house in Northern Scotland during a revelatory Winter Solstice."@en
  • "Winter solstice--the shortest day of the year--represents darkness and also hope, renewal, and rebirth. Five very different people come together in this setting, ranging in age from teenagers to mid-sixties, each of whom must confront very different challenges or losses."@en
  • "When she leaves London for a pretty Hampshire village, Elfrida Phipps quickly feels at home. She has a cottage, her faithful dog, and the friendship of the neighbouring Blundells - particularly Oscar - to ensure that her days include companionship as well as independence. But an unforeseen tragegy upsets Elfrida's tranquility."@en
  • "The December Solstice is a turning point. For some, it represents a time of darkness, the shortest day of the year. But for others, this event - just a few days before Christmas is about hope, renewal and rebirth."@en
  • "When Elfrida Phipps abandons London for a quaint country village, she settles in quickly. She has a tiny cottage, her faithful dog Horace, and the friendship of good neighbors, Oscar, Gloria and their little girl. Perhaps, at last, she can exorcise the pain of the past and find peace. But it is not to be and she takes refuge in a rambling house in the north of Scotland called Corrydale."
  • ""When she leaves London for the pretty Hampshire village that she describes as 'my geriatic bolt-hole', Elfrida Phipps quickly feels at home. She has a tiny cottage, her faithful dog Horace and the friendship of the neighbouring Blundells - particularly Oscar - to ensure that her days include compaionship as well as independence."--P. [4] of cover."@en
  • "The December solstice is a turning point. For some, it represents darkness, the shortest day of the year. For others, this event -- just a few days before Christmas -- is about hope, renewal, and rebirth. This story brings together five very different people, each of whom must confront very different challenges or losses."@en
  • "When Oscar Blundell suffers a double tragedy, he accepts an invitation to take over a rambling old house in Scotland, taking Elfrida Phipps, his friend and neighbour with him. As the house becomes a magnet for waifs and strays, it seems to weave a magic spell for Elfrida and Oscar."@en
  • "Five people buffeted by life's difficulties come together at a rundown estate house in Northern Scotland during a revelatory winter solstice."@en
  • "Following a tragedy, Elfrida Phipps takes refuge in a rambling house called Corrydale in the north of Scotland, which attracts a motley assortment of waifs and strays, each trying to escape a difficult personal past."@en
  • "The December solstice is a turning point. For some, it represents a time of darkness,the shortest day befor Christmas--is about hope,renewal and rebirth. In a story both deceptively simple and effortlessly complex, Rosamunde pilcher brings together five very different people, rangling in age from mid-sixties to teenagers, each of whom must confront very different challenges or losses."
  • "Taking as her theme the healing comforts of domesticity and companionship, Pilcher brings her readers into the lives of five very different but equally intriguing people. Plagued by loneliness, regret, abandonment, and loss, fate will unite them in a dilapidated estate house in Northern Scotland. It is in this house, on the shortest day of the year, that these five people will find each other, and ultimately find themselves."@en
  • "Tragedy drives a woman from her peaceful village life to a remote Scottish location where her disparate neighbours seem to create a cohesive whole as Christmas approaches."@en
  • "When she leaves London for a pretty Hampshire village, Elfrida Phipps quickly feels at home. She has a cottage, her faithful dog, and the friendship of the neighbours to provide companionship. But unforeseen tragedy upsets her tranquility."
  • "A Christmas story of love, generosity and hope for the humanity of man."@en
  • "Elfrida Phipps, once of London's stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in hopes of making a new life for herself. Oscar Blundell gave up his life as a musician in order to marry Gloria. They have a beautiful daughter, Francesca, and it is only because of their little girl that Oscar views his sacrificed career as worthwhile. Carrie returns from Australia at the end of an ill-fated affair with a married man to find her mother and aunt sharing a home and squabbling endlessly. Sam Howard is trying to pull his life back together after his wife has left him for another. It is the strange rippling effects of a tragedy that will bring these characters together in a large neglected estate house near the Scottish fishing town of Creagan."@en

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