Rosamunde Pilcher Solstice Collection, The (Summer Solstice / Winter Solstice) (4 Disc Box Set)

Summer Solstice:
Centering around the lives of organist Oscar Blundell, actress Elfrida Phipps, hotelier Countess Lucinda Rhives, her staffmembers Carrie and Sam whose relationship is strained by their being under pressure to succeed as the hotel’s managers, and best-selling American author Alexia White, ‘Summer Solstice’ is a tense and surprising drama with multiple storylines that criss-cross - sometimes violently, as these characters lives intertwine.

Winter Solstice:
When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes refuge in a rambling house with a new gentleman friend in Corrydale. But the group proves to be greater than the sum of its ill-fitting parts, and as the solstice passes, and as Christmas approaches, the healing power of love, begins to work its magic.