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"THE SHELL SEEKJERS is a deeply satisfying story, written with love and confidence It is a measure of this story's strength and success that a reader can be carried for more than 500 pages in totál involvement with Penelope, her children, her past and the painting that hangs in her country cottage."
—Maeve Binchy. The New York Ti
"Beautifully done A book about families when the reader closes the book, it is with a sense of regret—regret that there is no more."
—Boston Herald
"A satisfying and savory family növel, and engagingly flawed characters."
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—publishers weekly
"This warm, wise, and moving növel about the connection between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and lovers took me into the minds and hearts of somé truly unforgettable people, so real I almost forgot they were fictional characters. It's the kind of book you can't put down. When I left Rosamunde Pilcher's world, I was sorry...
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Fülszöveg
ROSAMUNDE
"THE SHELL SEEKJERS is a deeply satisfying story, written with love and confidence It is a measure of this story's strength and success that a reader can be carried for more than 500 pages in totál involvement with Penelope, her children, her past and the painting that hangs in her country cottage."
—Maeve Binchy. The New York Ti
"Beautifully done A book about families when the reader closes the book, it is with a sense of regret—regret that there is no more."
—Boston Herald
"A satisfying and savory family növel, and engagingly flawed characters."
.[with] rich layers of description
—publishers weekly
"This warm, wise, and moving növel about the connection between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and lovers took me into the minds and hearts of somé truly unforgettable people, so real I almost forgot they were fictional characters. It's the kind of book you can't put down. When I left Rosamunde Pilcher's world, I was sorry my journey had ended, but sure I would never forget the people I'd met along the way."
—Eugénia Price, author of To See Yolir Face Again
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'THE SHELL SEEKERS made me smile, made me weep and made me believe in Penelope and herfamily. The relationships between this woman and her children proved jascinating The Jlashbacks are beautifully and nostalgi-cally drawn, the love ajfair between Richárd and Penelope was warm and tender and all the sorrows oj the book were truthfully, realistically dealt with Once I had met Olivia and, more importantly, Penelope, whose növel this surely is, I relaxed into a thorougbly enjoyable readint) experience and I was extremely sorry to finish it."
—Hilary Norman, international bestselling author of The Pact
First a New York Times bestseller, then adapted for the small screen as a Hallmark Hall of Fame tele-vision special, THE SHELL SEEKERS is back in hardcover after a years-long hiatus. Rosamunde Pilcher's warm, poignant saga of a family strained by desire and greed is storytelling at its finest.
Penelope Keeling is the compassionate mother of three grown children: daughter Nancy, who is ravenous for status, son Noel, who radiates mate-rialism and selfishness, and daughter Olivia, who seeks success and contentment through her career. Penelope's cherished family heirloom, a painting named The Shell Seekers painted for her by her father, becomes the root of trouble in the family. Love, hate, and loyalty pivot around this deeply mean-ingful and financially valuable piece of art.
THE SHELL SEEKERS is interwoven with stirring vignettes about Penelope's youth that
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