We meet each of these people and other friends and neighbours in their homes, getting to know them gradually, entering into their lives. Archie has a sister, Pandora, who eloped twenty years previously with a married man, and has never returned, though they keep hoping she will…
They have two children too: Lucilla is backpacking around Europe at the start of the book, and Hamish, who is twelve, is mostly at boarding school. He has a grown-up daughter Alexa who lives in London, from his first marriage, and eight-year-old Henry.Īrchie is Lord Balmerino, traumatised and disabled by being in the army in Northern Ireland during the ‘troubles’, and his wife, Isabel, works very hard to keep the finances afloat. Her son Edmund is married to Virginia, who is rather younger than he is, and it’s his second marriage. Violet Aird is easy she’s in her late seventies, a large and comfortable woman who lives on her own. I remember, when I read it before, that I found it a bit hard, sometimes, to remember exactly who was whom, so I made more of an effort with the names this time.
Instead, the various storylines revolve around two families who live in the Scottish village nearby: the Airds and the Balmerinos.
However she doesn’t feature much in the book at all, and neither does her mother, who comes up with the idea several months before the event. The main story of ‘September’ is the planning and build-up to a dance, given for a young woman called Katy who is approaching twenty-one. I was long overdue re-reading this book, a saga style novel of over 600 pages, but finally picked it from my shelves a week ago, and have just completed it. I think I’ve read them all at least twice, but like to re-read every nine or ten years. I love Rosamunde Pilcher’s writing, and have collected all her books over the years.
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