A Place Like Home by Rosamunde Pilcher

A PLACE LIKE HOME by Rosamunde Pilcher (1924 – 2019) is a newly published collection of stand-alone short stories from this prolific writer whose novels, including The Shell Seekers, have sold over 60 million copies worldwide. I have been reading works by Rosamunde Pilcher (and Maeve Binchy) for decades, so it was a wonderful gift to have a new collection of her gentle romance stories. Most take place in England and many were written in the 1970s and 1980s. Examples include Someone to Trust about overcoming heartache and learning to be vulnerable again or Anniversary with its theme of marriage and consistency (and a surprising twist), plus several (Skelmerton , Ghosts of the Past, and Jonathan) in which a long ago love is rekindled. Lucinda Riley, who wrote the introduction, summarizes A PLACE LIKE HOME so well: “To those of you who already know and love Rosamunde’s writing, these short stories will be a welcome pleasure, and, for those readers that don’t, they are a wonderful introduction to her talent as a storyteller and the fictional worlds she so effortlessly brought to life.” This collection received a starred review from Kirkus.