An Ocean Apart
A Novel
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John Lee
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Robin Pilcher
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For six dreadful months, David Corstorphine has tried to come to terms with his young wife's death while caring for his three motherless children. Try as he may, David is unable to return to work, and his only form of solace comes from working in the garden of his parents' estate in the Scottish countryside.
Dispatched unexpectedly to New York, David's family hopes that the impromptu business trip will help him get back on his feet. But the journey proves both disastrous and heartening. David finds himself settling in comfortably among the strangers of a seaside Long Island town and takes a job as a gardener. But it is the people he meets, the pain he confronts, and the joy he is able to once again experience that prove to be magically transformative - and as David learns to accept his enormous loss, he is able to open his heart to love once again.
Writing with deep sensitivity to human frailty, desires and joys that listeners of his mother, Rosamunde Pilcher, have come to cherish, Robin Pilcher's An Ocean Apart will be embraced by generations in years to come.
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At 27, Virginia Keile had been through the most intense experiences life had to offer - a magical first love ending in heartbreak, a suitable marriage, motherhood, and widowhood. All she wanted now was to take her daughter and son to a seaside cottage in Cornwall and help them recover. But Virginia's true love was there, waiting, hoping, praying that this time she would be strong enough to seize happiness, in The Empty House.
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Perfect for a summer afternoon
- By Amazon Customer on 07-09-19
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Scarlet Feather
- By: Maeve Binchy
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 20 hrs and 8 mins
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New York Times best-selling author Maeve Binchy has a way of making everyday experiences extraordinary. Scarlet Feather introduces budding entrepreneurs Cathy and Tom who, along with their extended families, meet the trials and rewards of life head on. Scarlet Feather is a new catering company formed by two friends from cooking school, Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather. Their dream is to have the best business in Dublin.
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Another Hit on My List
- By JPisme on 08-25-11
By: Maeve Binchy
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Another View
- By: Rosamunde Pilcher
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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In Another View, there are only two men in Emma's life - her father, a remote artist in Cornwall who left her in boarding school and saw her every few years, and Christo, who had been her stepbrother for a few months, and now wants to get to know her. But until Emma can understand what she means to them, there will never be room for love.
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Another View
- By michele on 11-15-19
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The Long Way Home
- By: Robin Pilcher
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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When Claire Barclay receives news that her beloved stepfather has had a stroke, she's more than a little shaken. Leo is her last real relative, and his own children rarely check up on the old man. Claire and her husband, Art, leave New York and fly back to Scotland to care for him during the summer. Their visit makes clear that Leo is no longer capable of living on his own, but he is determined to stay in his beloved old house. Art comes up with the idea of turning the place into a conference center, thinking they could purchase the place from Leo and build him a cottage on the property.
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- By NCKitkat on 05-23-11
By: Robin Pilcher
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Starburst
- By: Robin Pilcher
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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Every summer, the Edinburgh International Festival attracts celebrated artists, musicians, comedians, and actors to the beloved Scottish city. This year, the annual Edinburgh festival draws six unique and vibrant individuals, who all come together to follow their dreams and seek success, love, fame, and happiness. Each of them is trying to discover what destiny holds in store, and during this one magnificent summer, paths cross and lives are forever changed.
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Another Winner
- By john s larigan on 04-22-08
By: Robin Pilcher
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A Risk Worth Taking
- By: Robin Pilcher
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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After the dot-com bubble burst, Dan Porter is laid off from his job and must decide what is truly important. His wife of twenty years, Jackie, a beautiful and successful managing director at a clothing designer shop, no longer connects with him. His teenagers, Josh, Nina, and Millie, are distant and confusing. Jackie is tempted by the attentions of a younger man at her office, and thanks to an opportunity suggested by a magazine article, Dan finds himself contemplating a drastic change in his life.
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Terrible Book, Self-absorbed Ass
- By Michael A. Alderete on 05-27-04
By: Robin Pilcher
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The Empty House
- By: Rosamunde Pilcher
- Narrated by: Helen Johns
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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At 27, Virginia Keile had been through the most intense experiences life had to offer - a magical first love ending in heartbreak, a suitable marriage, motherhood, and widowhood. All she wanted now was to take her daughter and son to a seaside cottage in Cornwall and help them recover. But Virginia's true love was there, waiting, hoping, praying that this time she would be strong enough to seize happiness, in The Empty House.
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Perfect for a summer afternoon
- By Amazon Customer on 07-09-19
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Scarlet Feather
- By: Maeve Binchy
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 20 hrs and 8 mins
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New York Times best-selling author Maeve Binchy has a way of making everyday experiences extraordinary. Scarlet Feather introduces budding entrepreneurs Cathy and Tom who, along with their extended families, meet the trials and rewards of life head on. Scarlet Feather is a new catering company formed by two friends from cooking school, Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather. Their dream is to have the best business in Dublin.
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Another Hit on My List
- By JPisme on 08-25-11
By: Maeve Binchy
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Another View
- By: Rosamunde Pilcher
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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In Another View, there are only two men in Emma's life - her father, a remote artist in Cornwall who left her in boarding school and saw her every few years, and Christo, who had been her stepbrother for a few months, and now wants to get to know her. But until Emma can understand what she means to them, there will never be room for love.
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Another View
- By michele on 11-15-19
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The End of Summer
- By: Rosamunde Pilcher
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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After years in the United States, Jane returns to the tranquil Scottish estate Elvie, where she spent a magical childhood. Memories of Elvie had always summoned the image of Sinclair, the rakish man Jane had once dreamed of marrying, but now that she is home, she finds Sinclair a different man. His charm has a purpose, and Jane can no longer trust him...or herself, in The End of Summer.
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The sweetest of stories!
- By Jane on 02-13-20
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Wild Mountain Thyme
- By: Rosamunde Pilcher
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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Oliver Dobbs was a writer first and a man second. To him other people were tools. Even though he had broken Victoria Bradshaw’s heart once, when he arrived on her doorstep with a two-year-old son, she found she could not refuse him, and the three of them set out for a castle in Scotland. There, Victoria meets the new laird and finds her crushed spirit awakening.
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Another Pilcher pleasure
- By Patti Malcolm on 12-01-18
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Sleeping Tiger
- By: Rosamunde Pilcher
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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Whenever Selina asked about her late father, the grandmother who raised her changed the subject. The chance discovery of a photograph gave Selina hope that he was still alive and sent her searching for him on a small Spanish island. In this lush paradise, Selina found George Dyer, a writer who would help her solve the mystery of her past...and might hold the key to her future.
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One of the best of her shorter books
- By Annie on 01-27-20
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Voices in Summer
- By: Rosamunde Pilcher
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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As in her worldwide best sellers The Shell Seekers and September, it is the richness of emotional seasons that has made Rosamunde Pilcher's novels beloved the world over. Now she invites listeners into long summer days on the coast of Cornwall - and into the stormy heart of newlywed Laura Haverstock. Shy, recovering from illness, and away from her husband, Laura's is a fearful heart on the verge of intimate discoveries...about herself, her family, and the source of true love within her.
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Exceedinly Disappointing!
- By k9mom on 05-13-18
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Open House
- By: Elizabeth Berg
- Narrated by: Becky Baker
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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In this superb novel - an Oprah Book Club selection - a woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening up her house to strangers and her heart to the simple miracle of possibility.
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Open House
- By Iris on 11-11-03
By: Elizabeth Berg
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September
- By: Rosamunde Pilcher
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
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A place you will never forget. Rosamunde Pilcher's Scotland...where the fields flourish with greenery, the bills bloom with purple, and the lochs glitter with the bright blue of the sky. A time you will never forget. September...when the heather is in full flower, the first chill of autumn cools the air, and the countryside stirs with the hunt, balls, dinner parties, and dance. Rosamunde Pilcher's September...a story of homecomings and heartbreaks, friendships, betrayals, forgiveness, and love.
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An old and much loved favorite
- By Jeanette Finan on 12-31-17
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A Place Like Home
- Short Stories
- By: Rosamunde Pilcher
- Narrated by: Barbara Barnes, Eilidh Beaton, Ellie Heydon, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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A Place Like Home is a collection of Rosamunde Pilcher’s most enduring short stories, never before published in audiobook form. The collection contains 15 stories, which range from "The Holiday", in which a wife surprises her husband of 25 years with a holiday full of Mediterranean sunshine, red rocks, and blue seas in an effort to rekindle the romance they had before children; "The Eye of Love", which takes the listener to the bright spring sunshine and sparkling waves of a Northumbrian village where old flames meet again; and more.
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I love All of Pilcher’s books…except this one.
- By pamela on 05-24-22
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The Carousel
- By: Rosamunde Pilcher
- Narrated by: Helen Johns
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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Celebrate life's journeys with the beloved author whose stories of life and love have touched the world. Return to the sun-drenched settings of The Shell Seekers and the rich emotion of Coming Home, as Rosamunde Pilcher takes listeners on an unforgettable journey of the heart. The Carousel tracks the emergence of a young woman from a relationship that has become too tame and predictable to the excitement of a new life brimming with possibilities and the thrilling promise of love.
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Too short
- By Robert on 11-23-18
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Coming Home
- By: Rosamunde Pilcher
- Narrated by: Helen Johns
- Length: 40 hrs and 37 mins
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Set against the backdrop of an elegant Cornwall mansion before World War II and a vast continent-spanning canvas during the turbulent war years, this captivating story tells of an extraordinary young woman's coming of age, coming to grips with love and sadness, and in every sense of the term, coming home.... In 1935, Judith Dunbar is left behind at a British boarding school when her mother and baby sister go off to join her father in Singapore.
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Marvelous story line, Excellent narration
- By Amazon Customer on 03-17-18
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Fox's Earth
- By: Anne River Siddons
- Narrated by: Sally Darling
- Length: 19 hrs and 25 mins
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When beautiful, dirt-poor Ruth Yancey rises to become mistress of Sparta, Georgia's finest mansion, she reveals a heart of pure evil. For three generations, she rules the mansion through cruel manipulation and insinuation, breaking hearts and shattering souls - until one courageous woman decides to match her madness.
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Narrated litrature at its best
- By Jamie Wallen on 01-18-10
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Should Have Known Better
- By: A J McDine
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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It’s the moment single-mum Kate has been dreading. With her only daughter, Chloe, about to leave home, she’s terrified by the prospect of an empty nest. That is until she meets charming lawyer Adam. He could be the perfect catch - if it wasn’t for his clingy son. Because Ben has a crush on Chloe. A crush that is fast becoming an obsession. Flattered by the attention, Chloe is happy to string him along - for now at least. But Kate can see the danger signs, even if her daughter can't.
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Unraveling the illusion: A Tale of Predictable Choices
- By mika boone on 09-22-24
By: A J McDine
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Where the Lost Wander
- A Novel
- By: Amy Harmon
- Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo, Shaun Taylor-Corbett
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at 20. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both. But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts work to keep them apart.
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Good story, bad reader
- By LoverofClassics on 06-09-20
By: Amy Harmon
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- Susan K. Brokens
- 07-07-23
Loved this family story
I loved the entire tale of life — death, happiness - despair — wealth — penniless - children - parents - grandparents - pets and love. For women and girls.
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- Nana W
- 06-04-24
Loved it!
I have enjoyed Robin Pilchers writing and I loved the narration. Its nice to hear it read with an accent closer a the Scottish accent than an American accent.
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- Lesley Harrison
- 07-19-24
This book had such heart
It crept up on me slowly, I started reading the book because I so enjoyed his mother’s books, Rosamund Pilcher.… And it was so wordy in the beginning that I just sort of used it as background noise as I did things and then it slowly started creeping in With so much soul and so much heart that I have to say now that I absolutely loved this book.
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- Linda
- 07-14-23
Unbearable narration
The story is wonderful. The narrator’s clipped and uneven volume made the book unbearable to listen to. He clipped words and sentences as if the words burned his mouth and he was so loud at the beginning of a sentence you want to turn it down but you can’t because he fades to a whisper at the end of the words and sentences. I listened for 6 chapters and then had to stop. My ears could not take it anymore.
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