Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher first edition September 1995
728 Pages- Against the backdrop of an elegant Cornwall mansion before World War II and a vast continent-spanning canvas during the turbulent war years, this involving story tells of an extraordinary young woman's coming of age, coming to grips with love and sadness, and in every sense of the term, coming home...
In 1935, Judith Dunbar is left behind at a British boarding school when her mother and baby sister go off to join her father in Singapore. At Saint Ursula's, her friendship with Loveday Carey-Lewis sweeps her into the privileged, madcap world of the British aristocracy, teaching her about values, friendship, and wealth. But it will be the drama of war, as it wrenches Judith from those she cares about most, that will teach her about courage...and about love.
Teeming with marvelous, memorable characters in a novel that is a true masterpiece, Coming Home is a book to be savored, reread, and cherished forever. About the writer Rosamunde Pilcher was a British novelist, best known for her sweeping novels set in Cornwall. She was born Rosamunde Scott on September 22, 1924, in Lelant, Cornwall, England. Her books have sold over 60 million copies worldwide Pilcher’s first book, a romance novel, was published by Mills and Boon in 1949, under the pseudonym Jane Fraser. She published a further ten novels under that name. By 1965 she had dropped the pseudonym and was signing her own name to all of her novels1. The breakthrough in Pilcher’s career came in 1987 when she wrote the family saga The Shell Seekers, her fourteenth novel under her name. It focuses on an elderly British woman, Penelope Keeling, who relives her life in flashbacks, and on her relationship with her adult children. The novel describes the everyday details of what life during World War II was like for some of those who lived in Britain. The Shell Seekers sold around ten million copies and were translated into more than forty languages. Pilcher died on February 6, 2019, at the age of 94, following a stroke