Rosamunde Pilcher's The Shell Seekers

Rosamunde Pilcher is a famous author of romance novels who was born Rosamunde Scott on September 22, 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall. Pilcher started writing when she was only seven and saw her first story get published when she was eighteen years old. Pilcher was also in the Women 's Royal Naval Service from 1943 until 1946, and late in 1946, she married Graham Hope Pilcher. The couple would stay married for almost sixty-three years until his death in 2009, and had four kids together, two sons and two daughters, and fourteen grandchildren. She is the mother of Robin Pilcher, who is also an author. Two years after she retired from writing in the year 2000, she was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire.

For Pilcher, writing helped her escape from her daily life, and that it saved her marriage. Her breakthrough would not come until the late eighties, when she released “The Shell Seekers”, a novel that sold over five million copies around the world. It also stayed on New York Times bestseller lists for months, as did

At the end of Penelope Keeling 's long life, her prized possession is a painting her father made called “The Shell Seekers”. He gave her this painting as a wedding present. It shows the unconventional life that she has led, from her bohemian childhood and her romance during wartime. Her parents were her artist father and his much younger French wife. Her children, now grown, learn that the painting is worth a lot of money, and each give their two cents about what should be done with it. As Penelope recalls everything in her life, all the tragedies, secrets, and passions that she has experienced in her life, she knows what she needs to do with it. There is really only one answer for the painting, in her mind. At the start of the novel, Penelope is in her sixties. You learn things about Penelope through her point of view and that of her