![]() ![]() Her breakthrough in the writing game would not come until the late eighties, when she released her twenty-third novel “The Shell Seekers”, a novel that sold over five million copies around the world. ![]() Two years after she retired from writing in the year 2000, she was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire.For Pilcher, writing helped her escape from her daily life, and that it saved her marriage. She is the mother of Robin Pilcher, who is also an author. She moved, with her husband, early on in their marriage and still lives there today. The couple would stay married for almost sixty-three years until his death in 2009, and had four kids together, two sons and two daughters, and fourteen grandchildren. ![]() She later attended secretarial school.Pilcher was also in the Women’s Royal Naval Service from 1943 until 1946, and late in 1946, she married Graham Hope Pilcher (who also was in the service and was an executive in the jute industry). ![]()
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