Rosamunde Pilcher

Rosamunde Pilcher was a British novelist best known for sweeping novels set in Cornwall, among them The Shell Seekers and Coming Home, which won the Romantic Novelists' Association's Romantic Novel of the Year award in 1996. Early in her career she published under the name Jane Fraser, and her books sold over 60 million copies worldwide. She also wrote September, set in the Scottish Highlands, before retiring from writing in 2000.