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The Empty House
When you read a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher you enter a special world where emotions sing from the heart. A world that lovingly captures the ties that bind us to one another-the joys and sorrows, heartbreaks and misunderstandings, and glad, perfect moments when we are in true harmony. A world filled with evocative, engrossing, and above all, enjoyable portraits of people's...more
Paperback, 249 pages
Published
December 15th 1996
by St. Martin's Paperbacks
(first published 1973)
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Apr 18, 2013
Mary
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4 of 5 stars
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Recommends it for:
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Bookmooch
Virginia Keile's secret dream had always been to have a second chance at loving the tall, handsome Cornish farmer she had met - and foolishly lost - the summer she was a debutante. Now, ten years later, Virginia is twenty-seven years old and life has taught her a great many lessons. She had married a titled bachelor chosen by her mother, lived in a lonely marriage until her husband's accidental death, and had nearly lost her two children to her former mother-in-law and a bossy Nanny.
All Virginia...more
All Virginia...more
Rosamunde ini mengingatkan saya pada Nh. Dini. Keduanya kuat dalam deskripsi, dan tulisan mereka begitu halus, bukan mendayu-dayu. Ada irama yang pelan, tidak menghentak, persis seperti mendengarkan lagu-lagu pengantar tidur yang menenangkan.
The empty house ini bercerita tentang Virginia, 27 tahun,janda dengan 2 orang anak.
Virginia berusaha untuk mandiri, tidak ada lagi orang-orang yang akan mempengaruhi keputusan-keputusannya seperti Ibu mertua yang kalem tapi sebenarnya tidak terbantahkan, Na...more
The empty house ini bercerita tentang Virginia, 27 tahun,janda dengan 2 orang anak.
Virginia berusaha untuk mandiri, tidak ada lagi orang-orang yang akan mempengaruhi keputusan-keputusannya seperti Ibu mertua yang kalem tapi sebenarnya tidak terbantahkan, Na...more
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Sinopsis:
“Virginia soñaba con recuperar a su primer amor. La última vez que se había sentido libre y feliz fue durante un breve verano, diez años atrás, cuando era adolescente. Muchas cosas han pasado desde entonces en su vida: el casamiento con un millonario lord escocés, elegido para ella por su madre; la soledad de un matrimonio sin amor, que culminó con la muerte de su marido; la dura lucha por conservar a sus dos hijos.
Ahora Virginia está de vuelta en Conrwall, dueña de su vida po...more
Sinopsis:
“Virginia soñaba con recuperar a su primer amor. La última vez que se había sentido libre y feliz fue durante un breve verano, diez años atrás, cuando era adolescente. Muchas cosas han pasado desde entonces en su vida: el casamiento con un millonario lord escocés, elegido para ella por su madre; la soledad de un matrimonio sin amor, que culminó con la muerte de su marido; la dura lucha por conservar a sus dos hijos.
Ahora Virginia está de vuelta en Conrwall, dueña de su vida po...more
I love Rosamunde Pilcher's settings. She has a relaxing style and her heroines are Mary Stewart-lite. BUT this 27-y-o woman with two children (whom she has never really looked after, since mother-in-law and nannie have taken charge) meets a man-she-met-once-as-a-teen. Three meetings later... they decide they're destined to be together. I can't imagine many young men would want to marry a woman-and-two that suddenly! It's really more of a 2 1/2.
I should have finished this book days ago, but quite frankly, I found it a little boring and I did not devour it like I do books that I love. It was a sweet enough love story, but it isn't a book that I would ever consider reading again. It just didn't do anything for me--didn't make me think or dream or speculate--like better books do. When I was away from it, I didn't long to be reading it, like I do with the books I love. The characters were okay--I didn't really feel any kinship with Virgini...more
A nice layback book that is full of surprises and anecdotes centering around a character that spills the beans, weaving a narrative that is complex in detail but interlocks together even though its essentially about Virginia going on holiday, suddenly finding she is in need of her children, and rekindling feelings of long lost love long been dissapited because of her mother that forced her marriage into the aristocracy regardless of love and emotions. She is lost and lonely, and finds out that h...more
I know I know, I swore off Pilcher books after the last one, but once again I was drawn in by the promise of a sweet and cozy little romance. Amongst Pilcher women, Virginia is a gem. Timid at first, she nonetheless finds the courage to stand up to Mother-in-law, AND the formidable Nanny, and take her children away with her for the summer. She even manages to rent a beach house all by herself and with only a few false starts, figures out the shopping, cooking, and so forth. The romantic interest...more
This is a much shorter one than some of Pilcher's other books, such as COMING HOME, SEPTEMBER, or WINTER SOLSTICE. Recommended if you just feel like a little Pilcher, not a lot. ;) It’s a pretty “universal” story; the only thing unique about it is the fun “British-ness” and “Pilcher-ness:” but it’s still fun and read-able. Virginia is a 27-year-old widow with children Cara (8) and Nicholas (6). She leaves her children with her bossy mother-in-law in London and goes to Cornwall to visit a friend,...more
Comecei ontem, logo após as 12 badaladas, mas só consegui ultrapassar o primeiro capítulo. O sono venceu-me!
Hoje de manhã aproveitei para retomar a leitura e acabei-o.
Gostei bastante da escrita desta autora de quem já ouvi maravilhas.
Virginia é uma mulher perdida no mundo. Com dois filhos pequenos para criar, uma família manipuladora e uma tragédia recente, Virginia recolhe-se em Porthkerris, Cornualha.
Mas ao contrário de descanso e paz, Virginia terá de enfrentar os fantasmas do seu passado, o...more
Hoje de manhã aproveitei para retomar a leitura e acabei-o.
Gostei bastante da escrita desta autora de quem já ouvi maravilhas.
Virginia é uma mulher perdida no mundo. Com dois filhos pequenos para criar, uma família manipuladora e uma tragédia recente, Virginia recolhe-se em Porthkerris, Cornualha.
Mas ao contrário de descanso e paz, Virginia terá de enfrentar os fantasmas do seu passado, o...more
2/10
Non so se sia stato scritto prima o dopo de "I cercatori di conchiglie", fatto sta che ne è una versione leggera: tutte le donne protagoniste della Pilcher paiono sposarsi a dodici anni scegliendo il proprio marito totalmente a caso, ma loro sono intelligenti e brillantissime eh! Tant'è vero che pioverà loro in braccio l'Uomo Della Loro Vita, bellissimo intelligentissimo e via discorrendo anche lui, che le amerà e saranno una coppia perfettissima forevah. Come contorno l'immancabile Porthker...more
Non so se sia stato scritto prima o dopo de "I cercatori di conchiglie", fatto sta che ne è una versione leggera: tutte le donne protagoniste della Pilcher paiono sposarsi a dodici anni scegliendo il proprio marito totalmente a caso, ma loro sono intelligenti e brillantissime eh! Tant'è vero che pioverà loro in braccio l'Uomo Della Loro Vita, bellissimo intelligentissimo e via discorrendo anche lui, che le amerà e saranno una coppia perfettissima forevah. Come contorno l'immancabile Porthker...more
Found on my mother's bookcase...
Soppy romance set in Cornwall. Virginia Keile returns to the village where she fell in love as a teenager, and meets up again with the man who she loved and lost at 17. But now she is 27 and widowed with two children who she has never cared for without the help of a Nanny; can she rekindle her romance with the handsome, rugged farmer? Yes, of course she can. And of course her children love him. And of course they live happily ever after.
A sweet, romantic story tha...more
Soppy romance set in Cornwall. Virginia Keile returns to the village where she fell in love as a teenager, and meets up again with the man who she loved and lost at 17. But now she is 27 and widowed with two children who she has never cared for without the help of a Nanny; can she rekindle her romance with the handsome, rugged farmer? Yes, of course she can. And of course her children love him. And of course they live happily ever after.
A sweet, romantic story tha...more
Twenty-seven yr old Virginia Keile has come to Porthkerris on vacation while her two children are in London with her mother in law and the Nanny. The last time Virginia was in Porthkerris was ten years before. During that visit, she met Eustace Phillips. Because her mother didn't approve, the relationship was never allowed to develop and she was whisked back to London for her coming out year. Rather than face the social scene, Virginia married Anthony Keile and moved to Scotland. Now Anthony is...more
A widow returns to Cornwall to recover from the 'flu. She feels that her mother-in-law and her children's Nanny are running her life, and decides to rent a rundown house and bring the children there for the month of August. She also meets a farmer that she had fallen in love with at 17, he lives close to her rented house and has still not married ten years later.
An early Rosamunde Pilcher, it is not as good as the later ones, but is still a good read.
An early Rosamunde Pilcher, it is not as good as the later ones, but is still a good read.
This was a good, quick, clean romance. The reason I gave it four stars instead of five is I felt that Pilcher didn't spend enough time establishing why the main characters connected in the first place. In order to have a good romance, an author has to establish the sparks between the characters. In addition, this book was really more of a journey of self-actualization than a romance. It was nice to read a story about a woman coming into her own, so to speak, but unfortunately it made the romance...more
Not exactly a memorable plotline, unlike some of Pilcher's other novels, but still very enjoyable. The story revolves around Virginia, recently widowed, who is taking a break with an old friend in Cornwall. All she wants is a quiet, simple existence with her children in a relaxed environment.
This book is a sort of growing-up for Virginia as she starts to take control of her life. There's also - perhaps inevitably - a very low-key romance, with flashbacks to the past, both in her late teens and...more
This book is a sort of growing-up for Virginia as she starts to take control of her life. There's also - perhaps inevitably - a very low-key romance, with flashbacks to the past, both in her late teens and...more
I found this on the sale shelf at the library and had to pick it up. I love Rosamunde Pilcher and I wish she was still writing! This is one of her shorter, romantic novels, not a big family story like The Shell Seekers or September, but it still has the Pilcher touch: place descriptions that make you feel like you are there and empathy for the characters. A perfect summer read.
What can I say? It's Rosamunde Pilcher :) Drama, romance and confection-sweet descriptions of the sea, the moors, the farms and the fields of Scotland. You just want to eat them up! This is the fourth or fifth RP book I have read. I have a stack of them and every six months or so, I treat myself to another one. It's the best kind of escape in the world.
"The Empty House" is the story of a widow who rents a house in Cornwall for the summer, takes her children from their proper upbringing with their Grandmother, and sets out to get acquainted with them herself. Of course, in the process she finds love and happiness...I particularly enjoyed the little boy in this story.
Oct 02, 2011
Lorrie
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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I bought this book at the used paperback bookstore. It's been sitting on my desk for a month or so. Today I have a sore throat and am a little under the weather so I thought I'd take it easy and read a new book. This book was excellent!! It was way too short! It was really good but there was not enough detail--it was way too short! That's why I just gave it a 4. I really enjoyed the love story, Porthkerris, Virginia, her children, and Eustice.
Pilcher mentions Porthkerris so often in her books t...more
Pilcher mentions Porthkerris so often in her books t...more
After a couple of intense books, I just needed some fluff. This seemed to fit the bill. I've read some of her more recent books and enjoyed them, but this one was an older one and just didn't seem as interesting.
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Virginia returns to Cornwall 10 years after her last visit to "vacation" following the death of her husband. As she makes decisions regarding where her life and her children's lives will go from here, she shares the story of her first love and her marriage.
A short and sweet story of loss, misunderstanding and rebuilding. I really enjoyed this novel. I loved the descriptions and details, the emotions and pain, and the realization of the truth. Virginia is catapulted into the past, a number of par...more
A short and sweet story of loss, misunderstanding and rebuilding. I really enjoyed this novel. I loved the descriptions and details, the emotions and pain, and the realization of the truth. Virginia is catapulted into the past, a number of par...more
My second favorite Rosamunde Pilcher book! The characters are wonderful and makes one want to be their neighbor. It is a joy to read!
I love all of Rosamunde's novels, The themes are about family, finding joy in ordinary moments and making the most of what you got.
If you believe in love at first sight, even though it might take you years to actually get together... Pilcher is your author.
This was a 2nd read, but Rosamunde Pilcher is so descriptive and mostly has happy endings, so it was a funn read.
Pilcher didn't make these characters quite as real, therefore sympathetic, as she does her others. Good yarn, though.
I am a sucker for Pilcher's descriptive books about southwest England, and sweet love stories, what can I say.
I read the wrong book first for book club and liked the other one much better.
Note: The copy I have with the same cover is written In English.
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Rosamunde Scott was born on 22 September 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall, England, UK, daughter of Helen and Charles Scott, a British commander. Just before her birth her father was posted in Burma, her mother remained in England. She attended St. Clare's Polwithen and Howell's School Llandaff before going on to Miss Kerr-Sanders' Secretarial College. She began writing when she was seven, and published h...more
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