You'll never go wrong picking up a Rosamunde Pilcher book. My father's favorite author, but my mother was the one that introduced me to her. Mrs. Pilcher weaves stories about real people and they usually live in England. It's as if she gathers together characters that don't exactly know one another and puts them together in one small village or a house and they become somewhat of a family. You cannot put her books down so you might as well know that and get ready for a feast.
This book, Voices in Summer, is mainly about Laura. She has married a much older man who had been previously married. She feels out of sorts around the friends he and his glamorous first wife had and she would rather not be in their presence. It's awkward hearing about how Erica would do this and do that, and she was such a friend, etc. Really? She was such a friend but she left you and her husband and so forth to go to America with another man who has horses ... her real true loves?
But Laura also has female issues that have prevented her from giving her new husband a child. Trying to correct the problem she has an operation but must recuperate somewhere. Enter Tremenheere and the people who live in this tiny place that rejuvenates her while her husband has to go to New York on business. Tremenheere brings with it its' own intrigue of characters who seem to live free where the ocean is not far away, the warm breezes blow and the chill mornings wrap people up in their own thoughts while holding a cup of tea.
Make your own cup of tea or coffee and get ready to sit awhile as you get lost in the lives of others and wish you were there.
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