Snow in April (by Rosamunde Pilcher)

In reading my way, gradually, through the late Rosamunde Pilcher’s excellent novels, I reached ‘Snow in April’. This is a book I only discovered around the turn of the century, and have only read twice. I last read it in 2009, and my only memory of it was of someone getting snowed in at a stranger’s house in Scotland.

The opening chapter introduces Caroline, a young woman who is due to get married in a week’s time. She lives in London with her well-off and organised stepmother Diana, and Dia...