An Ocean Apart

A Novel

By: Robin Pilcher

Narrated by: John Lee

For six dreadful months, David Corstorphine has tried to come to terms with his young wife's death while caring for his three motherless children. Try as he may, David is unable to return to work, and his only form of solace comes from working in the garden of his parents' estate in the Scottish countryside.

Dispatched unexpectedly to New York, David's family hopes that the impromptu business trip will help him get back on his feet. But the journey proves both disastrous and heartening. David finds himself settling in comfortably among the strangers of a seaside Long Island town and takes a job as a gardener. But it is the people he meets, the pain he confronts, and the joy he is able to once again experience that prove to be magically transformative - and as David learns to accept his enormous loss, he is able to open his heart to love once again.

Writing with deep sensitivity to human frailty, desires and joys that listeners of his mother, Rosamunde Pilcher, have come to cherish, Robin Pilcher's An Ocean Apart will be embraced by generations in years to come.

©1999 Robin Pilcher (P)2020 Tantor

Loved it!

I have enjoyed Robin Pilchers writing and I loved the narration. Its nice to hear it read with an accent closer a the Scottish accent than an American accent.

Loved this family story

I loved the entire tale of life — death, happiness - despair — wealth — penniless - children - parents - grandparents - pets and love. For women and girls.

This book had such heart

It crept up on me slowly, I started reading the book because I so enjoyed his mother’s books, Rosamund Pilcher.… And it was so wordy in the beginning that I just sort of used it as background noise as I did things and then it slowly started creeping in With so much soul and so much heart that I have to say now that I absolutely loved this book.

Unbearable narration

The story is wonderful. The narrator’s clipped and uneven volume made the book unbearable to listen to. He clipped words and sentences as if the words burned his mouth and he was so loud at the beginning of a sentence you want to turn it down but you can’t because he fades to a whisper at the end of the words and sentences. I listened for 6 chapters and then had to stop. My ears could not take it anymore.