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 … 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 by Rosamunde Pilcher is a book to be savored, reread, and cherished forever.
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This is my all time favorite book. I have a hard copy of it that I have read over and over again on a cold winter’s night. I ordered a copy of it for my Ipad which I have read several times, and I sent the hard copy to my sister to read who loves it as much as I do. It is a remarkable story about World War II and the people who lived through it …
I’ve read this book ten times over the past thirty years. A wonderful coming of age stories that takes place in a most trying time in our history.
This is my all time favorite book. I want to live in this world. (well, maybe not the World War 2 part…) Rosamunde Pilcher has written such appealing characters, and her descriptions of the landscape and the houses make me feel as though I’ve been there, Not only have I read this multiple times, I have it in paperback, on ebook, and on audiobook!
Just a completely lovely story!!
I read this a second time, because I couldn’t remember the end…that tells you how good it is.