Best-selling novelist Rosamunde Pilcher is renowned for her storytelling. Her rich, romantic tales and their beautiful settings are captured perfectly in this special seven disc DVD boxed set which contains five sumptuous adaptations based on Pilcher’s books: Coming Home, Nancherrow, Winter Solstice, Summer Solstice and The Shell Seekers.
The films feature a star-studded cast which reads like a who’s who of great actors including Joanna Lumley, Peter O’Toole, David McCallum, Honor Blackman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean Simmons, Sinead Cusack, Peter Ustinov, Robert Hardy, Maximilian Schell and Vanessa Redgrave.
Coming Home introduces the glamorous and wealthy Carey-Lewis family and Judith Dunbar. Judith is at boarding school and her family is in Singapore at the outbreak of the Second World War. When she loses touch with her family the Carey-Lewis’s welcome her into their home. This story is continued in Nancherrow when the family must struggle to come to terms with post-war Britain.
Winter Solstice is an entrancing story of shattered lives and broken hearts. When Elfrida Phipps moves she soon befriends her new neighbours. Tragedy strikes and they all decamp to a house on a Scottish Estate. Set in the beautiful wild Highlands of Scotland the saga is continued in Summer Solstice.
The Shell Seekers is the story of love, family life and an exquisite painting that has captivated millions and which tears a family apart.