This was an excellent book. I love Rosamunde Pilcher and she brings the characters to life in "September". So descriptive that it makes you feel like your actually there. I want to go to Scotland now that I've read this book!!!

Septmeber is one of Pilcher's best novels, second only to her classic, The Shell Seekers. Her characters will stay with you, she has such a wonderful way of making them real, yet still likeable for the most part. Many of her other works are good as well but this one (along with Shell Seekers) is one that I happily reread on a regular basis because it's almost like saying hello to old friends.

The only reason I've even made it halfway through this book is that I picked it up for free and, unfortunately, English-language books are hard to come by where I live. But this morning I nearly flung it into the trash because it is so horrible. A plot is basically non-existent (the entire novel turns on the fact that there's going to be a party and all of the women are really excited about buying themselves new dresses) the writing is abysmal (just an example: "And Alexa, so occupied and busy, resented the interruption and was equally unenthusiastic."). It's basically nauseatingly romantic pap for lonely women who like to fantasize about marrying handsome foreign royalty. It's not even amusing in the way that Harlequin romances or real bodice-rippers are. It's just dull. Most halfway intelligent people would probably be able to intuit all this just from the cover design and tacky embossed gold font of the title, but I thought I'd issue out a warning for those who sometimes like to "slum it" with a brainless novel in the W.C. - this book does not even measure up to W.C. level - unless you've run out of T.P.

An incredibly marvelous read. Ms. Pilcher is one of our finest authors; her characters are all "real". Her books are always very hard to put down once started.