In their varied ways, even those sons and daughters who have long since left Scotland are nevertheless bound to it, for it is in their bones.
An alluring sense of this place is at the very core of the book. ''September'' is a story of kith and kin set in the Scottish Highlands. Thomas Dunne Book for St.If in her best-selling novel ''The Shell Seekers'' Rosamunde Pilcher revealed much of herself through the person of Penelope Keeling, then certainly she has done so again, with a different heroine, in ''September.'' This time it is Violet Aird, a woman who, though old in years, is most vividly and warmly young in spirit. All will converge on Scotland this September, bringing their stories with them. Far from them all is Pandora, the glamorous, exciting girl who ran away twenty years before. The oldest, strongest and wisest of them all, she sees Alexa, her vulnerable granddaughter, find love for the first time, while the decision to send her little grandson away to school is driving parents Edmund and Virginia even further apart. The invitations summon home the group of people Violet Aird has cared for most in her long life. As spring comes to Scotland and the hills burst into life, a dance is planned for September. Rosamunde Pilcher's major bestseller, also a successful TV film, now available in unabridged audio download.
The oldest, strongest and wisest of them all, she sees Alexa, her vulnerable granddaughter, find love for the first time, while the decision to send her little grandson away to school is driving parents Edmund and Virginia even.
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