Almost like a magnet, Corrydale attracts various waifs and strays, each of them escaping difficult personal pasts. Tragedy upsets Elfrida's newfound tranquility and she takes refuge in a rambling house in the North of Scotland called Corrydale. Perhaps, at last, she can exorcise the pain of the past and find peace. She has a tiny cottage, her faithful dog, Horace, and the friendship of good neighbors, Oscar, Gloria and their little girl. When Efrida Phipps abandons London for a quaint country village, she settles in quickly. In a story both deceptively simple and effortlessly complex, Rosamunde Pilcher brings together five very different people, ranging in age from mid-sixties to teenagers, each of whom must confront very different challenges or losses. But for others, this event-just a few days before Christmas-is about hope, renewal and rebirth. For some, it represents a time of darkness, the shortest day of the year. The December solstice is a turning point.
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