Rosamunde Pilcher dead at 94: Author of The Shell Seekers dies after ill health
Rosemunde's son Robin Pilcher confirmed the sad news of her death today
Rosamunde Pilcher, the author of The Shell Seekers, has died this week at the age of 94.
The historical romance writer suffered from a period of ill health after Christmas and never recovered.
Her novelist son Robin Pilcher confirmed the sad news to the Guardian, explaining: “She had been in great form up until Christmas, then suffered from bronchitis in the new year, but was always expected to bounce back as before.
"However, she suffered a stroke on Sunday night and never regained consciousness."
Rosamunde became a household name thanks to the BBC adaptation of her 1987 saga The Shell Seekers, which starred Vanessa Redgrave and Prunella Scales when it aired in 2006.
Before that, her writing talents had been put to good use when she started submitting novels to Mills & Boon under the pen name Jane Fraser.
She would go on to describe those romance novels as "‘frightfully wet little novels - romantic stuff with red roses on the cover".
In conversation with The New York Times, Rosamunde once revealed that The Shell Seekers seemed autobiographical but wasn't.
"I didn't get married until after the war, I was careful not to get too emotionally involved," she explained.
''I did feel that I had put a lot of myself down on paper. I feel that if I had died the next day after writing it, everyone would know exactly what happened.''
Rosamunde leaves behind her four children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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