In 2006 the book was made into a mini-series starring Vanessa Redgrave as Penelope Keeling. The novel was adapted into a stage play by Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham. It was filmed on location in Ibiza, London, Cornwall and the Cotswolds and involved significant changes to Pilcher's original story. Other actors include Anna Carteret, Patricia Hodge and Irene Worth. This Emmy-nominated television film of the book in the Hallmark Hall of Fame starred Angela Lansbury as Penelope Keeling. Winner of the Prize for Fiction by the International Catholic Association for Radio and Television (UNDA) - Monte Carlo Television Festival (1990) įilm, TV or theatrical adaptations 1989.Pilcher's novel September includes the character of Noel Keeling, son of Penelope. Much of the forward impetus of the novel involves the work of her father, including a painting called The Shell Seekers, given to Penelope as a wedding present. Penelope's life from young womanhood to the present is revealed in pieces, from her own point of view and those of her children. When the novel opens, Penelope is in her 60s and has just been discharged from the hospital after what was seemingly a heart attack. Shifting in time, the novel tells the story of Penelope Keeling, the daughter of unconventional parents (an artist father and his much-younger French wife), examining her past and her relationships with her adult children. The novel sold more than five million copies worldwide, and was adapted for the stage and as a film for television twice. In Germany the novel is called Die Muschelsucher and was also in the top 100 novels. It was nominated by the British public in 2003 as one of the top 100 novels in the BBC's Big Read.

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The Shell Seekers is a 1987 novel by Rosamunde Pilcher.

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