Robin Pilcher, bestselling author of An Ocean Apart returns readers to contemporary Scotland, where the "simple" life has grown somewhat mo...
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Mar 07, 2011
Virginia
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I liked that the book was based in Scotland. Nice lingo. It was a good story. Kind of dragy in places. The main woman was recently separated from her cheating husband. Went off on a vacation with a professor friend and had a brief fling with the professor's son. hm. He farther was a prominent figure in the book also. He also got into the romance scene with a golfer woman who had recently lost her father. Some interesting scenes. I like the laziness. Then again I got bored with it a
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Feb 09, 2010
Pbwritr
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By the son of Rosamunde Pilcher! Quite amazing! And a very good, heartwarming book for a man to have written. I understand better about "showing"--and it's using the action verbs, it seems to me. The author skillfully uses a number of coincidences--people arriving from Australia or in Spain--to create new and lasting relationships and to solve a major problem--the financing of the golf course. Of course, we had no idea Roberta was rich--we thought all along she was frumpy. A very good
Jul 14, 2009
Carrie
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I want to give this book 3 1/2 stars. I really liked the scenery in this book: Scotland and Spain are both described beautifully, and I feel as if I were there. I like the characters too. The story line, about a family whose farm is being pursued by developers to be turned into a golf course, fell a bit short to me. I felt like the book ended too soon with two many ideas unexplored. However the beautiful writing did a lot to make up for that.
Apr 26, 2011
Kw
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Nicely written, made me wish I could be in Scotland a while! The characters are interesting, but I was a bit put off by the suggestion that an extra-marital affair could be good for a failing marriage. What poppycock!!
Still, a good read.
Still, a good read.
Nov 26, 2011
Mary-Frances
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Cute book, like the characters a lot - downside? Well, the author goes off on tangents with TOO much description and he LOVES big words.
In all honestly, if I want to read a wordy book, I'd go back to the classics. I like my nice romances simple. Is this too much to ask?
In all honestly, if I want to read a wordy book, I'd go back to the classics. I like my nice romances simple. Is this too much to ask?
May 13, 2010
Vikki
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This is a very good book written by Rosamunde Pilcher's son. This story takes place in Scotland. A woman is cheated on by her husband which divides the family farms. This was a great book. I am sorry its over.
Mar 12, 2010
Sueij
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Another enjoyable fluffy book. I don't think there was anything wildly special about it, but I kept wanting to pick it up and follow the lives of the family it centers around.
Aug 01, 2011
Took me longer to read because I'm back at work, but it still wasn't that great. It was pretty predictable and didn't give me that must be reading feeling.
Jul 06, 2009
Pamela
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A long the lines of his mother Rosamunde, and Maeve Binchy, this is a light, slice of life book of ordinary people brought to a point in their lives where some decisions have to be made. A nice summer read.
May 13, 2011
Paulette
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Recommendation by a friend. I hadn't read any books by this author. Too predictable and "happy ever after".
Jul 06, 2010
Linda
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Similar to his mother's books but with a masculine flair. Set in Scotland, Spain and Australia.
Jul 22, 2010
Sue
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It took me a few chapters to get into the book. This always happens when new characters are being introduced in each chapter. Once I was into the book, it was a nice read, similar in style to Maeve Binchy.
Jan 25, 2011
JayeL
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This book was ok. I liked it because it has elements of Rosamunde Pilcher's writing in it. The characters are similar, but the sentences are not as carefully constructed and the descriptions tended to make my mind wander. I liked the story and thought the ending was a good one - not a typical and expected fiction ending.
May 30, 2010
Ally
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I struggled to keep reading this book. It was ok but not good enough to entice me to finish it. I got about a quarter the way through in 3 weeks.
Jan 29, 2012
Yang
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Kurzbeschreibung
Inmitten weiter Felder an der Ostküste Schottlands liegt die Farm, um deren Erhalt Liz seit Monaten kämpft. Erst als Arthur in ihr Leben tritt, nehmen die Dinge eine unerwartete Wende. Ein spannendes Buch, zum Weinen und zum Lachen schön. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
Inmitten weiter Felder an der Ostküste Schottlands liegt die Farm, um deren Erhalt Liz seit Monaten kämpft. Erst als Arthur in ihr Leben tritt, nehmen die Dinge eine unerwartete Wende. Ein spannendes Buch, zum Weinen und zum Lachen schön. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
Mar 20, 2010
Sue
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Liz lives near St Andrews in Scotland. An American firm want to build a golf course on her land. Not the normal setting for a novel, but it's a great book of endings and beginnings, lovely characters, and very believable.
Aug 27, 2008
Lauren
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Another light summer read...Liked it, but it didn't make me think all that much. :)
Nov 04, 2007
Hayseed
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Son of Rosamunde, a good read, but had to give it a low rating due to the ending.
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