“It is a measure of this story’s strength and success that a reader can be carried for more than 500 pages in total involvement with Penelope, her children, her past and the painting that hangs in her country cottage,” novelist Maeve Binchy wrote in reviewing the book in The New York Times Book Review in 1988. The title refers to a painting by Penelope’s father. The novel’s main character, Penelope, is an artist’s daughter who in the course of the book looks back on her life and relationships. Martin’s Press, which published the book in the US, told The New York Times in 1990. “The Shell Seekers was the quintessential word-of-mouth book in hardcover,” Thomas J McCormack, then chairman of St. Pilcher had been writing short stories and novels for years, first under a pen name and then under her own, when The Shell Seekers, published in 1987, elevated her to a new level of sales and fame. Her agent, Felicity Bryan, said she had died in hospital after a short illness. 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.
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