Penelope is under pressure to sell the valuable sketches made by her father, Lawrence Stern. They had never been lost. She had hidden them away at the back of her wardrobe. Now she is waiting to have them valued but what about the fate of her father's famous painting The Shell Seekers?

Written by Rosamunde Pilcher and dramatised by Lin Coghlan

The Narrator, Rosamunde Pilcher ..... Jessica Turner
Penelope ..... Emma Fielding
Olivia ..... Emily Berrington
Nancy ..... Jasmine Hyde
Noel ..... Will Kirk
Young Penelope ..... Kitty O'Sullivan
Richard ..... Carl Prekopp
Antonia ..... Imogen Front
Danus ..... Ian Dunnett Jnr
Lawrence ..... Michael Bertenshaw
Doris ..... Debra Baker
Mr Brookner/Soldier ..... John Lightbody
Mrs Enderby ..... Juliana Lisk

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