

She falls in love too with the generous Carey-Lewises themselves. When her new friend Loveday Carey-Lewis invites Judith home for the weekend to Nancherrow, the Carey-Lewises’ beautiful estate on the Cornish coast, it is love at first sight. Pilcher retired from writing in 2000, two years later she received her OBE.īorn in Colombo, Judith Dunbar spends her teenage years at boarding school, while her beloved mother and younger sister live abroad with her father. In 1955 she published her first novel under her own name, by 1965 she had dropped the pseudonym entirely. In 1949 Pilcher’s first novel was published under the pseudonym Jane Fraser, she went on to publish a further ten novels under that name. In 1946 she married her Graham Hope Pilcher and they moved to Dundee, Scotland together. From 1943 to 1946 she served with the Women’s Royal Naval Service. She began writing when she was 7 and published her first short story at the age of 15.

Rosamunde Pilcher was born on the 22nd September 1924 in Cornwall.
