# Winter Solstice

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- Book: [Winter Solstice](https://www.bookquiver.com/rosamunde-pilcher/winter-solstice) ([Winter Solstice.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rosamunde-pilcher/winter-solstice.md))
- Authors: [Rosamunde Pilcher](https://www.bookquiver.com/rosamunde-pilcher)
- Publisher: hodder_stoughton
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-18-4456-097-4
- Published: 2005-12-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

Elfrida Phipps loves her new life in the pretty Hampshire village. She has a tiny cottage, her faithful dog Horace and the friendship of the neighbouring Blundells - particularly Oscar - to ensure that her days include companionship as well as independence. But an unforeseen tragedy upsets Elfrida's tranquillity: Oscar's wife and daughter are killed in a terrible car crash and he finds himself homeless when his stepchildren claim their dead mother's inheritance. Oscar and Elfrida take refuge in a rambling house in Scotland which becomes a magnet for various waifs and strays who converge upon it, including an unhappy teenage girl. It could be a recipe for disaster. But somehow the Christmas season weaves its magical spell and for Elfrida and Oscar, in the evening of their lives, the winter solstice brings love and solace.