THE SHELL SEEKERS

Artist's daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly loved. She has brought up three children - and learned to accept each of them as they are.

Yet she is far too energetic and independent to settle sweetly into pensioned-off old-age. And when she discovers that her most treasured possession, her father's painting,

The Shell Seekers, is now worth a small. fortune, it is Penelope who must make the decisions that will determine whether her family can continue to survive as a family, or be split apart.

PRAISE FOR ROSAMUNDE PILCHER

‹Pilcher's storytelling skills are serene and beguiling'

The Times

"Wonderful, evocative and inviting'

Woman & Home

"Much-needed balm to soothe the troubled mind'