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Sleeping Tiger

Sleeping Tiger

by Rosamunde Pilcher

1967FictionFicciónAudiocassettesEnglish fictionLove stories
3.0
Open Library
Open Library

First lines

The wedding-dress was creamy-white with a suggestion of pink behind it, like the inside of a shell.

About this book

DANGEROUS QUEST Selina was a quiet, sensible young woman. In two weeks she would marry, a quiet, sensible man. !Chad all been arranged. Sensibly. Then one day a face from her past appeared, a photograph on the back of a book jacket and suddenly Selina took off for a Spanish island to search for a man who'd been dead for years...and became hopelessly entangled in the most impossible, unsensible love affair of her life!

Themes & subjects

FictionFicciónAudiocassettesEnglish fictionLove storiesAdventure stories
First published 1967

Setting

SpainEspaña

About the author

Rosamunde Pilcher
Rosamunde Pilcher

22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019

Rosamunde Scott was born on 22 September 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall, England, UK, daughter of Helen and Charles Scott, a British commander. Just before her birth her father was posted in Burma, her mother remained in England. She attended St. Clare's Polwithen and Howell's School Llandaff before going on to Miss Kerr-Sanders' Secretarial College. She began writing when she was seven, and published her first short story when she was 18. From 1943 through 1946, Pilcher served with the Women's Naval Service. On 7 December 1946, she married Graham Hope Pilcher, a war hero and jute industry executive who died in March 2009. They moved to Dundee, Scotland, where she still lives today with a dog in P…

Author

Rosamunde Pilcher

First published

1967

Pages

208

Read time

≈ 5h

Editions

39

Languages

English, German, Spanish

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

ISBN

9781427297488

Where to buy

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