The blue bedroom and other stories

Format:

Book (large print)

Title:

The blue bedroom and other stories

Author:

Pilcher, Rosamunde.

ISBN:

9781560540946

9781560549956

Edition:

Thorndike Press large print ed.

Publication Information:

Thorndike, Me. : Thorndike Press, 1991.

Physical Description:

364 pages ; 23 cm

Contents:

Toby -- Home for the day -- Spanish ladies -- Miss Cameron at Christmas -- Tea with the professor -- Amita -- The blue bedroom -- Gilbert -- The before-Christmas present -- The white birds -- The tree -- The house on the hill -- An evening to remember.

Summary:

The arthor invites you to share the full spectrum of life's moods and emotions through her very first collection of stories. From a child's first knowledge of death, through city and country, to an elderly woman's newfound freedom, The Blue Bedroom is a welcoming experience full of the honesty and warmth.

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Summary

This collection of short stories from the author of 'The Shell Seekers' illustrates Rosamunde Pilcher's storytelling skills at their best.

Author Notes

Rosamunde Pilcher was born Rosamunde Scott on September 22, 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall, England. When World War II broke out, she left school and went to work for the Foreign Office. In 1944, she joined the Women's Royal Naval Service and was stationed in Ceylon when the war ended. Her first short story was published while she was serving in Ceylon. She married Graham Pilcher in 1946.

Her first novel, Half-Way to the Moon, was published in 1949 under the penname Jane Fraser. She continued writing books under that penname into the early 1960s, but in 1955 she also published her first book under her own name entitled A Secret to Tell. Her best-known novel, The Shell Seekers, was published in 1987. Her other novels included Sleeping Tiger, The End of the Summer, Wild Mountain Thyme, Voices in Summer, September, Coming Home, and Winter Solstice. She also wrote short stories. She died after a short illness on February 6, 2019 at the age of 94.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

Lacking the genuine warmth and humor of such sterling Pilcher novels as Voices in Summer (1984), this collection of sentimental formula stories--set mainly in rural England--features predictable upbeat endings. Most of these stories first appeared in Good Housekeeping. For the most part, they're structurally uniform: sad or frightened people are reconciled to such matters as death, loneliness, estrangement, anxiety, etc. through gifts of coincidence or through communion with (sometimes preachments from) kind or needy others. A small boy, grieving the loss of an elderly friend, witnesses the birth of a lamb, the beginning of a romance, and hears from his grandmother that ""life is a mountain,"" and that the end is undoubtedly a glorious peak. At a dreaded wedding in the same church where her beloved grandfather's funeral was recently held, a granddaughter is comforted (thanks to an oh-so-wise young man) by the knowledge that Grandfather is really there, one of the family still. Lonely ladies bloom: a timid spinster finds companionship during a night of comforting a young friend; and a widow accepts the friendly overtures of a hitherto remote boarder. And birthing looms large here. A young girl's aid to her stepmother, in unexpected labor, brings them close; and a middle-aged mother, awaiting news about a potentially dangerous birth, finds hope about her daughter's condition via a flight of swans. Kindness to an old boring relative brings a financial bonanza of money to a young couple; a youngster learns the folly of race prejudice. And then there are two mildly amusing stories: a stepfather tries to deal with the death and resurrection of two youngsters' pet goldfish; and there's the night the boss and wife show up for a formal dinner, a day early. In sum: quickie inspirational fixes. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.