Her agent, Felicity Bryan, said she had died in hospital after a short illness. She’s writing.Rosamunde Pilcher, a British writer whose romance and generation-spanning novels like The Shell Seekers regularly made bestseller lists and were turned into television movies and miniseries, died on Wednesday in Dundee. Her friend said, ‘Look, your mummy’s lips are moving.’ And Fiona said: ‘Don’t be stupid. “Once, when Fiona was small, she had a friend over, and I was hanging up the washing and running through my dialogue. “I always practice my dialogue out loud,” she said. Pilcher related an anecdote from her days as a fledgling novelist with young children. In a 1990 interview with People magazine, Ms. Pilcher’s survivors include two daughters, Fiona and Philippa two sons, Robin and Mark 14 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. Her last book, “Winter Solstice,” was published in 2000. It, too, ended up on television, as a 1998 mini-series with a cast that included Emily Mortimer, Peter O’Toole and Joanna Lumley.

Pilcher’s later books included “Coming Home” (1995) - a “not so fictional” story, as she put it, about a family’s experiences in the World War II years, some of which paralleled her real-life experiences. Pilcher two years to write, has sold millions of copies. Pilcher map out the plot of “The Shell Seekers.” The book, which took Ms. She then began writing in earnest, producing more short stories. She married a veteran, Graham Pilcher, in 1946, and they moved to Scotland, settling in Dundee. It was the moment I knew that I could do it.” “The day he sent me a cable to say it had been published for 15 guineas really was the best moment of my life. “While in Ceylon I wrote a short story, and my father submitted it to Woman and Home magazine,” she told The Western Morning News of Plymouth, England, in 2013. She was stationed in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) when the war ended. She spent two years working in Portsmouth, England, and in 1944, after D-Day, joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service, known as the Wrens. When World War II broke out, Rosamunde left school, learned shorthand and went to work for the Foreign Office. Pilcher told The Times in 1995, “but that time went very quickly.”) Her mother, Helen, raised her in Cornwall.

(“He came home every four years when he got a leave,” Ms. Her father, Charles, worked for the India Civil Service and was posted overseas for much of her childhood. 22, 1924, in Lelant, a village on the southwestern tip of Cornwall. “We occasionally have to explain that one of the reasons Cornwall is so beautiful is because it rains.” “The Germans come to Cornwall thinking it is gloriously sunny here all the time, due to the movies,” one prominent resident, James Molesworth-St.

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