The End of Summer (by Rosamunde Pilcher)

In re-reading my Rosamunde Pilcher novels again over the past few years, I reached the one that is probably my least favourite: ‘The End of Summer’. It’s quite a short book - only just over 150 pages - which I last read in 2010.

Jane is the main character of this novel, and it’s told in the first person. We first meet her when she’s sitting on a beach in California, and gets chatting to a surfer. We learn from her conversation and her thoughts that she lives in a small house, essentially lit...