Pilcher died on 6 February 2019, at the age of 94, following a stroke. Plant a tree to honor the memory of your loved one.

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Rosamunde Scott was born September 22nd, 1924, in Lelant, a village on the southwestern tip of Cornwall. Her son, Robin Pilcher, is also a novelist. Authoress, dear wife of the late Graham Pilcher MC, loving mother of Fiona, Robin, Pippa and Mark, remarkable mother-in-law to Richard, Will, Kirsty and Jess, legend grandmother and 'Dondie' to Julian, Oliver, William, Max, Alice, Tamsin, Hugo, Jamie, Caitlin, Florence, Lola, Iona, Lalage and Archie, and the proudest of great-grandmothers to seventeen of their offspring. Although I never met you I feel that I knew you through every one of those amazing books.

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Share to let others add their own memories and condolences “Her breakthrough came when a young American editor with St Martin’s Press, Tom Dunne, recognised her sparkling prose and pitch-perfect dialogue and launched her books in the US.”Dunne, Bryan said, helped Pilcher map out the plot of Graham Pilcher died in 2009. She was stationed in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) when the war ended.“While in Ceylon I wrote a short story, and my father submitted it to She married a veteran, Graham Pilcher, in 1946, and they moved to Scotland, settling in Dundee. British writer Rosamunde Pilcher: when the second World War broke out, she left school, learned shorthand and went to work for the Foreign Office. She then began writing in earnest, producing more short stories.“Because I had spent a long time meeting with and living with so many young people in Portsmouth and Ceylon, I’d seen countless love affairs starting, blossoming, crashing and ending,” she said.