Robin
Pilcher was born in Dundee, Scotland on 10th August 1950, the second
child of Graham, a director of the family jute business, and the
novelist Rosamunde Pilcher. Robin attended school in Dunfermline and
Bristol before finally returning home to complete his education at the
Dundee College of Commerce.
Being
described in The Publishing News as ‘having as many career changes as
the River Thames has bends’, Robin has worked in his time as a cowboy,
an assistant film cameraman, a farmer, a public relations and
marketing consultant and a tennis coach. His first book, An Ocean
Apart was published in 1999 and sold to 11 countries, as well as
reaching the lower echelons of the best-seller lists in the UK and the
USA. This was followed in 2002 by Starting Over, which reached #9 in
the New York Times Bestseller Lists, and A Risk Worth Taking in
February 2004. All three books have been adapted for television.
Robin’s new book
Starburst, which is set around the annual Edinburgh Festival, will be
published in August on both sides of the Atlantic.
Robin has been
married to Kirsty for 34 years. Their children, Oliver, Alice, Hugo
and Florence range in years from 30 to 20, while granddaughter
Andalucía is 2 years old. Robin and Kirsty now divide their time
between Scotland and Spain. When he’s not thumping away on his
computer, Robin is a keen player of both golf and tennis, and when the
mood takes him (and he’s sure that no-one is listening!), he does
still pick up his guitar every now and again to strum out some
heart-searching ballad!
July 2007
