Sleeping Tiger (Windsor Selections) [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Rosamunde Pilcher (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 7, 1994 | Series: Windsor Selections

Performance by Carole Shelley
Two cassettes, 3 hours

For the first time in her life, Selina Bruce wasn't sure what tomorrow would bring. She had impulsively left behind her lawyer fiancé in London and flown alone to a tiny island off the Spanish coast. She was searching for the father she'd never know, but what she found was an unexpected truth about herself and the man she planned to marry. For exotic San Antonio offered Selina more than the penetrating brilliance of the noonday sun. It offered her the mysterious George Dyer, who held the key not only to her past--but to her heart.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Pilcher is known for her warm, compassionate tales of English family life. But this 1967 novella, available on audio for the first time, is not one of her better efforts. An orphan brought up by her maternal grandmother, 20-year-old Selena has always wondered about her never-mentioned father. Her only link to him is a photograph, and when she spots, on the back of a book jacket, an author photo with an uncanny resemblance to her father, she impetuously takes off for Spain to find him. Selena's extreme na vet becomes irritating after a while, and suspenseful and comic moments seem forced and drawn out. Narrator Carey excels at voicing the many quarrels in this book, easily switching from Selena's high-pitched, protesting voice to an exasperated male tone. Unfortunately, she has no facility for accents. She's fine for the Brits: Selena, her fianc , the author Selena suspects is her father. But much of the action takes place on an island off the coast of Spain, and Carey's Spanish accent for the supporting characters is simply not credible. An American character, too, sounds anything but American. (May)
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Review

"Rosamunde Pilcher's characters inhabit your daily life...Pilcher [is] a Jane Austen for our time." --Cosmopolitan

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Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C; Large type edition edition (March 7, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0745176585
• ISBN-13: 978-0745176581
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,107,810 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Rosamunde Pilcher Greatly Improved with Age, April 20, 2000

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Antoinette Klein (Hoover, Alabama USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sleeping Tiger (Mass Market Paperback)

Although I would recommend that any fan of Rosamunde Pilcher read this book, I have to say it is perhaps my least favorite of all of hers. Selina, the heroine, is naive and impulsive and does not come across as the strong female character we get in Mrs. Pilcher's later works. Selina sets off from England to find the father she never knew and was told was dead. Because of a photo on a book jacket, she thinks her father is a writer living in Spain. When she arrives unannounced he tells her in no uncertain terms that he is not her father and she needs to go back to London. Selina cannot seem to leave this man and even hides her passport when he forces her to go to the airport. I was shocked when I learned what the real connection between this young girl and this man was. Because it is not set in England or Scotland as most of her novels are, we miss the wonderful descriptive setting Mrs. Pilcher is noted for. This was Mrs. Pilcher's first novel under her own name and was first published in 1967. Although nowhere near the standards she set with "The Shell Seekers," "September," and "Coming Home," it is a short and worthwhile read for her legions of fans, of which I am most definitely a part.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A gentle tale but definitely not Pilcher's best, September 15, 2000

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Lesley West (St James, Western Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sleeping Tiger (Mass Market Paperback)

Rosamund Pilcher writes the most engrossing tales with strongly drawn characters and rich plots, but this is by far her weakest tale. It is certainly entertaining enough in a gentle way, but only as an average romance, and nothing else. Even there it begins to flounder, as I found myself unconvinced of the growing feelings between the characters, and found the ending to be flat and quick, almost as if she had run out of ideas.

If you are reading this review, please do not be put off - Pilcher is one of my favourite authors and I would rate all of her other books 4 to 5 stars. Find "The Shell Seekers" and be enchanted.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny and touching, September 25, 2001

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This review is from: Sleeping Tiger (Mass Market Paperback)

This was actually one of my favorite Rosamunde Pilcher books. I certainly agree that it's not quite on a par with The Shell Seekers, which is one of my favorite novels of all time. This novel does lack some flow, but has some great, funny scenes. My favorite is the one when George walks in and finds Selina in his house and the conversation that ensues before she tells him she thinks he may be her father. If you're a Rosamunde Pilcher fan, (and even if you haven't "met" her yet) this is worth reading.