![]() ![]() 100,000 first printing $100,000 ad/promo Troll Book Club main selection. Pilcher's 13th book is a satisfying and savory family novel, in which rich layers of description and engagingly flawed characters more than make up for the occasional cliche. Only Olivia, a cool and collected magazine editor, refuses to be party to their barely concealed avarice. Someone who will listen and make no judgements. ![]() Vi is the sort of character many of us probably need in reality. When their grandfather's work suddenly comes into vogue, Nancy, obsessed over status, and sleek Noel, adept at getting the most and giving the least, join in urging their mother to sell The Shell Seekers, a painting that gives her great joy. We start off with Violet Aird, or Vi as she is known, who seems to be a fairly central character and somewhat involved in everyone’s life. ![]() In a beautifully detailed family saga that shifts effortlessly back and forth in time, Pilcher (Under Gemini) recounts Penelope's story and that of her three children. Safe in the embracing arms of that warm household, Penelope forgets her sour husband and takes a lover, and in that relationship, too, she weathers the war's privations and its hardest blows. ![]() On the heels of a hasty wartime marriage, Penelope Keeling is left to repent at leisure in the English seaside town of Porthkerris, where her artist father and her French mother are spending the duration of World War II. ![]()
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