Much like The Shell Seekers, delight fills every page of this epic family saga. In amongst the dog-eared self-help and history books was a well-thumbed copy of Coming Home, and while I had promised myself that I wouldn’t steer from the final ten books I have to tick off the BBC Top 100, I was unable to resist taking it home with me. I had just finished Crime & Punishment, when, after an early morning yoga class I was meandering home along Hall Street I noticed a box of free books outside one of my favourite bookshops in Sydney – Gertrude & Alice. I later read The Carousel and September and while I was recommended Coming Home many, many months ago, it was serendipity that finally brought it to my reading pile. coming home.I first came across Rosamunde Pilcher when I read The Shell Seekers as part of my BBC Big Reads challenge – and was instantly swept away by the Cornish tale abundant in charm and nostalgia and beloved by a nation of readers. And Judith herself has far to travel before at last. But it is a flame soon to be extinguished in the gathering storm of war. Read more surrogate family whose flame burns brightly. With their generosity and kindness, Judith grows from naive girl to confident young woman, basking in the warm affection of a.
She falls in love too with the generous Carey-Lewises themselves. When her new friend Loveday Carey-Lewis invites Judith home for the weekend to Nancherrow, the Carey-Lewises' beautiful estate on the Cornish coast, it is love at first sight. 'Serene and beguiling' The Times Born in Colombo, Judith Dunbar spends her teenage years at boarding school, while her beloved mother and younger sister live abroad with her father.
A heartwarming bestseller from the much-loved Rosamunde Pilcher.
The bestselling, heartwarming tale of innocence and youth during the 1930s re-issued with a stunning new jacket look Num Pages: 1040 pages, n/a.
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