Coming Home

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I have read this book twice and that is not something I have done with many of the thousands of books I have read. I just could not put it down and was worried it would be over too quickly so I actually started to pace myself. During their sojourn in Penmarron, they had seen quite a lot of her, and she had never been anything but kind.

The Warrens were an intensely close family, and Heather could not imagine a worse fate than to be torn from her parents and her two older brothers, both as handsome and raven-haired as their father. All of this 'I wandered lonely as a cloud' musing brings me to my latest read which I read as part of my Rosamund Pilcher seasons readalong over on Instagram.

Most of the other characters, during the development of the novel, manage to be at least interesting, if not utterly convincing and appealing.

Almost from the beginning, I found myself saving this for things like the stationary bike, as it was encouraging me to bike more and stay on the bike longer. Only that she had known, always, that life would be like this, because this was how it was for every British India family, and the children absorbed and accepted the fact that, from an early age, long separations and partings would, eventually, be inevitable. For the next ten years, we follow Judith and her new-found family through love, death, and the outbreak of a war that will tear Judith's loyalties in two.

Cliffs and deep cuttings, bays and beaches, delectable cottages, little paths and tiny fields which in spring would be yellow with daffodils. The story left me wanting more and was a bit lacking for me to really get connected with the characters. it’s a book filled with nostalgia and the most lovely conversations from a time when people made time for each other and truly engaged in conversation and spending time with each other. USEFUL AND ACCEPTABLE GIFT said a handwritten card leaning against a ferocious claw-hammer which sported a sprig of artificial holly.

Video review available in Week 8: Feb 19 – Feb 25, 2023, weekly book reviews on Steph's Romance Book Talk ( https://www. The group is lovely and all big fans of Rosamunde Pilcher and we have been sharing lots of pictures as well as casting for films of the books. Judith is a very strong woman who has become strong due to the circumstances of her upbringing, Judith soon realises that her mother is not a strong woman and so she needs to take charge occasionally and help her mother. Indeed it is Judith who describes the female Carey-Lewis's as lighting up a room and leaving it dimmer when they leave.With their generosity and kindness, Judith grows from naive girl to confident young woman, basking in the warm affection of a surrogate family whose flame burns brightly. I'm not even sure, but there is something wonderfully familiar about it, something cozy, human and warm about the story itself.

In 1996, her novel Coming Home won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by Romantic Novelists' Association. Nettlebed (the crusty butler who is transformed into a gardener by the war effort), who isn’t as real as the couple who live across the street from you. Last of all, as the school clock chimed a quarter to five, there came, through the open door, two girls, Judith Dunbar and Heather Warren, both fourteen years old, both dressed in navy-blue coats and rubber boots, and with woollen hats pulled down over their ears. They were never in love, but they both definitely wanted more with each other in their college days, but life took them different ways. A terrace of Regency houses, windows blinking in the bright light, gardens rich with magnolia and camellia bushes.It transported me to Cornwall, England, pre- to post- WW11; to people who behave lovingly towards each other always, who are unselfish and strong, and who live in cozy cottages by the sea surrounded by beautiful gardens and who drink masses of strong tea to recover from sleep, or any withering experience, great or small. It sees Cara reflect on how her family, home and culture have shaped her life and gives a profound glimpse into her world. Pilcher shows WW2 in its truest form, she does not glamorise it and at times I found it hard to read about but I am pleased Pilcher kept it realistic. Debido a que es una historia muy larga, llegas a conocer y encariñarte con todos los maravillosos personajes, no me hubiera importado una 20 o 30 páginas más y que el final hubiera sido más completo, lo sentí apresurado. But that was as far as the resemblance went, for Judith was fair, with two stubby pigtails, freckles, and pale-blue eyes; while Heather had inherited her colouring from her father, and through him, back over the generations of ancestors, from some Spanish sailor, washed ashore on the Cornish coast after the destruction of the Armada.