Short Stories:
📘Toby – The loss of neighbor and friend Mr. Sawcombe teaches 8-year-old Toby another side of life.
📘Home for the Day – On the day James Harner works from home, he learns what his wife Louisa has meant all the times she answered, “Nothing much” to his inquiry of “What have you been doing today?”
📘Spanish Ladies – A grandfather’s favorite song is played at a most unexpected time in remembrance of a grandfather.
📘Miss Cameron at Christmas – Miss Cameron will have the company of a 14-year-old neighbor on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning.
📘Tea With the Professor – Unbeknownst to Veronica, her son James arranged a surprise visit with the neighbor before he returned to school.
📘Amita – Laura remembers the day she met Amita and the differences between what she was told as a child and what she felt in her heart that stayed with her throughout her life.
📘The Blue Bedroom – Emily didn’t know if she’d ever feel a bond with her stepmother, Stephanie until they shared an experience in the blue bedroom.
📘Gilbert – Bill is the stepfather to Emily and Anna, and their relationship changed the day Gilbert, the goldfish, surprised them all.
📘The Before-Christmas Present – Ellen Parry discovered that her kind visit to Ruth Sanderford would become a gift to herself.
📘The White Birds – Eve Douglas and her grandson Jamie have a unique experience on a walk along the foreshore.
📘The Tree – Ian, Jill, and Robbie’s weekend plans are changed by the need to invite Ian’s uncle for dinner and a quiet evening together, not realizing their hospitality would change everything.
📘The House on the Hill – Oliver is recuperating from surgery at his sister and her husband’s home but will need to overcome several fears to help his pregnant sister.
📘An Evening to Remember – Mr. and Mrs. Fairhurst are invited to dinner at Henry and Alison’s home, but what do you do when the boss and his wife show up an evening earlier than planned?

The treasure of reading a story by Rosamunde Pilcher is the enchantment one feels through her characterizations and descriptive writing. Reading one of her stories is like wrapping yourself in a cozy blanket of warmth. The stories are of everyday experiences that happen during a lifetime, from ordinary days to holidays – friendships, pregnancies, marriages, blending families, career choices, retirement, and loss of friends and loved ones. Within the characterizations, emotions become transparent with an understanding of how they may change through experiences from childhood to adulthood, that kindness, thoughtfulness, and encouragement are gifts to one another, and that generosity of time shared is priceless. ( )

Das Buch mag "Das blaue Zimmer" heißen, aber meine liebste Geschichte war "Weiße Vögel"
War mal wieder Zeit nicht nachzudenken. ( )

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A very Pilcheresque collection of stories. I did recognize a few things from her both shorter and longer novels and the early births adventures are a bit overdone but a delightful take away from the current world was what I wanted and what I got.