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Winter Solstice av Rosamunde Pilcher
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Winter Solstice (urspr publ 2000; utgåvan 2015)

av Rosamunde Pilcher (Författare)

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher, Winter Solstice (the basis for the TV movie) is the story of five unforgettable characters, lonely and haunted strangers who find love and loyalty as a reborn family of friends during the Christmas holidays.
Elfrida Phipps, once of London's stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in hopes of making a new life for herself. Gradually she settled into the comfortable familiarity of village life??shopkeepers knowing her tastes, neighbors calling her by name??still she finds herself lonely.
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 Austria at the end of an ill-fated affair with a married man to find her mother and sister sharing a home and squabbling endlessly. With Christmas approaching, Carrie agrees to look after her sister's awkward and quiet teenage daughter, Lucy, so that her mother might enjoy a romantic fling in America.
Sam Howard is trying to pull his life back together after his wife has left him for another. He is without home and without roots, all he has is his job. Business takes him to northern Scotland, where he falls in love with the lush, craggy landscape and set his sights on a house.
It is the strange rippling effects of a tragedy that will bring these five characters together in a large, neglected estate house near the Scottish fishing town of Creagan
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Titel:Winter Solstice
Författare:Rosamunde Pilcher (Författare)
Info:St. Martin's Griffin (2015), Edition: First, 528 pages
Samlingar:Ditt bibliotek
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Taggar:Fiction, Family Saga, Prairie Cat

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    Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day av Winifred Watson (SylviaC)
    SylviaC: Miss Pettigrew and Elfrida have similar live-for-the-moment attitudes.
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Excellent author Goodreads ReviewHer captivating bestseller of loss and the healing power of love now re-issued with a stunning new jacket look. Elfrida Phipps loves her new life in the pretty Hampshire village. She has a tiny cottage, her faithful dog Horace and the friendship of the neighbouring Blundells - particularly Oscar - to ensure that her days include companionship as well as independence. But an unforeseen tragedy upsets Elfrida's tranquillity: Oscar's wife and daughter are killed in a terrible car crash and he finds himself homeless when his stepchildren claim their dead mother's inheritance.Oscar and Elfrida take refuge in a rambling house in Scotland which becomes a magnet for various waifs and strays who converge upon it, including an unhappy teenage girl. It could be a recipe for disaster. But somehow the Christmas season weaves its magical spell and for Elfrida and Oscar, in the evening of their lives, the winter solstice brings love and solace. (less)
  bentstoker | Jan 26, 2024 |
I was a little impatient with this slow-moving story at first, but in the end was glad that I stayed with it. It’s a warm, comfortable story of people who adrift at the end of a relationship, who find one another and begin anew. It’s not a Romance, but it is a story of love in its many forms. It was a little like a book form of those sweet, staid BBC and PBS shows that seem to mostly feature nice people sitting and talking, or walking and talking, with just enough offscreen drama to keep it interesting. I can see why so many people enjoy this story as an annual holiday comfort read.

Audiobook, via Audible. Lynn Redgrave provides an okay performance – it’s possible that this book needed someone a little more lively to spark it up.

I read this for The 16 Tasks of the Festive Season, and I will be using it as the Book Joker for Square 9 December 21st: Winter Solstice is the longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere, also known as Yaldā Night in Iran. The same day is the summer solstice in the southern hemisphere, giving them the longest day of the year. This book takes place during the weeks leading up to the Christmas holiday, but the key turning point takes place on the evening of the winter solstice.
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  Doodlebug34 | Jan 1, 2024 |
I found myself comparing this one to Maeve Binchy's A Week in Winter, but I didn't feel like this one held up as well. So much could have been edited out for a stronger story. We limp along with these wounded creatures and I had a hard time caring what happened next. I absolutely loved Coming Home and The Shell Seekers, so maybe my expectations were too high. I wasn't a fan.

“You never really got to know people properly until you had seen them within the ambience of their own home. Seen their furniture and their books, and their manner of their lifestyle.” ( )
  bookworm12 | Nov 22, 2023 |
4.5 * a really enjoyable re-read ( first read in 2000), an excellent book for this time of year. 2020 listened to the audiobook this time. ( )
  LisaBergin | Apr 12, 2023 |
Escocia: donde el paisaje, la gente, el clima y el whisky se aúnan para crear un ambiente mágico donde el amor es posible a todas las edades y ante las circunstancias más adversas.
Después de un triste acontecimiento, Elfrida sintió la imperiosa necesidad de huir de sus recuerdos y abandonó Londres para siempre. Buscó refugio en un pequeño pueblo donde pronto encontró la paz deseada. Unos vecinos, los Blundell, le demostraron generosidad y cálido afecto. Sin embargo, una tragedia inesperada provocó un nuevo cataclismo en su vida. Y una vez más se vio obligada a cambiar de domicilio.
Ahora, el destino la lleva a una enorme casa en Escocia, donde casi por azar va congregándose un variopinto grupo de personas, cada cual con sus propios anhelos y desdichas, todas supervivientes de unas vidas marcadas por las desgracias y los contratiempos...
  Natt90 | Mar 24, 2023 |
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“Oh Oscar, for goodness sake, of course I’m going to sell it!  Don’t you see?  With that money we can really transform Billycliffe Villa into the most desirable of residences.  Build a conservatory, fling out a ballroom wing… and buy a microwave!”
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher, Winter Solstice (the basis for the TV movie) is the story of five unforgettable characters, lonely and haunted strangers who find love and loyalty as a reborn family of friends during the Christmas holidays.
Elfrida Phipps, once of London's stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in hopes of making a new life for herself. Gradually she settled into the comfortable familiarity of village life??shopkeepers knowing her tastes, neighbors calling her by name??still she finds herself lonely.
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 Austria at the end of an ill-fated affair with a married man to find her mother and sister sharing a home and squabbling endlessly. With Christmas approaching, Carrie agrees to look after her sister's awkward and quiet teenage daughter, Lucy, so that her mother might enjoy a romantic fling in America.
Sam Howard is trying to pull his life back together after his wife has left him for another. He is without home and without roots, all he has is his job. Business takes him to northern Scotland, where he falls in love with the lush, craggy landscape and set his sights on a house.
It is the strange rippling effects of a tragedy that will bring these five characters together in a large, neglected estate house near the Scottish fishing town of Creagan

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Livskloka Elfrida, som är skådespelerska, tröttnar på storstadslivet och flyttar ut på landet. Redan första gången som hon och organisten Oscar Blundell möts känner de sig dragna till varandra, men han är gift och har barn och Elfrida blir nära vän till familjen. Men så står Oscar plötsligt utan fru och dotter och han övertalar Elfrida att följa med till Sutherland i Skottland, där han är född.
Vänner och släktingar samlas vid jultid i det stora huset hos Oscar och Elfrida - ensamma och försummade fjortonåringen Lucy och hennes moster Carrie, som nyligen har flyttat hem efter en uppslitande kärlekshistoria i Österrike, affärsmannen Sam Howard som har bott i New York en tid och nu blivit hemkallad för att få fart på en skotsk textilfabrik.
Så griper ödet in och det blåser upp till snöstorm, vägarna blir oframkomliga och gästerna stannar kvar längre än planerat - alla dessa ensamma, vilsna människor som längtar efter värme, kärlek och att hitta sin rätta plats i tillvaron.
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