By Rosamunde Pilcher
Reviewed by Sharma Krauskopf and rated

"Another View" is not a story dependent on characters even though it is rich in well developed and interesting people. Its success is not a detailed twisting plot that keeps you turning the pages to find out what is going to happen next.

So, you ask why should you read Another View?

View is the key word.

The best element of this 263-page novel is being conveyed to the small English town of Portkerris nestled in the hills over looking the North Sea. In all of her novels Rosamunde has successfully used the environment as one of the central themes of her books. The Shell Seekers and Coming Home are stories in which the setting makes them not just good but outstanding. She does not need the beautiful photographs included in "The World of Rosamund Pilcher" to give the reader the sense of living this book. The reader is at the ocean, drinking at a local pub and sitting in a disheveled art studio high on a cliff above the sea. These experiences are created by carefully selected words which have the reader smelling the salt in the air, seeing the white foam of the waves at night, and entering the dim dark atmosphere of an English pub. This is what make Another View a superb little book. If you cannot take a trip to the English seashore this year, you can escape for a half day simply by reading by joining Rosamunde, Emma, Ben and Robert in Portkerris.

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