Rosamunde Pilcher is one of my very favorite authors. so I was really looking forward to seeing this movie. It is, without a doubt, the worst adaptation of a novel that I have ever seen. There is absolutely NO coherence---if one had not read the book one would be completely at sea. I understand that much of the book had to be cut, but surely it could have been done more judiciously. The stellar cast is caught in a mishmash of chop-and-change scenes and a pathetically lame script. The changes were horrid: adding Pandora's pregnancy, changing Noel to Neil, and leaving out so much of the background that the viewer was lost in a deep Scottish mist. Shame on the costumer for keeping Isobel bundled in the clothes of a scullery maid; shame on the writers for failing to explain Pandora's suicide, and shame on the whole ensemble for virtually wrecking a lovely story. The only thing true to the book was the Highland scenery, and we got to see very little of that. Rosamunde---I am so sorry that they so completely defiled your work!
