Penelope's prized possession is The Shell Seekers, painted by her father, and symbolizing her unconventional life, from bohemian childhood to wartime romance. When her adult children learn their grandfather's work is now worth a fortune, each has an idea as to what Penelope should do. But as she recalls the passions, tragedies, and secrets of her life, she knows there is only one answer...and it lies in her heart and that is what helps to unlock the key to Penelope’s final decision.

Written by Rosamunde Pilcher and dramatised by Lin Coghlan

The Narrator, Rosamunde Pilcher ..... Jessica Turner
Penelope ..... Emma Fielding
Olivia ..... Emily Berrington
Nancy ..... Jasmine Hyde
Young Penelope ..... Kitty O'Sullivan
Noel/Ambrose ..... Will Kirk
Cosmo ..... John Lightbody
Antonia ..... Imogen Front
Danus ..... Ian Dunnett Jnr
Lawrence ..... Michael Bertenshaw
Doris ..... Debra Baker
Miss Pawson ..... Anna Spearpoint

Directed by Tracey Neale

An instant bestseller when it was first published and still one of the highest bestselling British family sagas of the past four decades, Rosamunde Pilcher's The Shell Seekers is an enduring classic which has touched the hearts of millions of readers worldwide.

Set in Gloucestershire, London, Cornwall and Ibiza and shifting between 1939 and 1985. This is the story of one family and the passions and heartbreaks that have held them together.

Artist's daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life. She has brought up three children - and learned to accept them as they are. Yet she has no intention of settling sweetly into pensioned-off old-age. She wants to live. A story of memory, fate, loss, trauma, connection, and the cost of maintaining that. Is family, everything, after all?

Writer, Rosamunde Pilcher
Dramatised by Lin Coghlan
Produced and Directed by Tracey Neale Show less