Coming Home

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All Pilcher-readers find themselves loving her easy going, narrative voice which is completely refreshing. In 1955 she published her first novel under her own name, by 1965 she had dropped the pseudonym entirely. It was like having all the world revealed, a huge and marvellously coloured map: farmland, patchworked like a quilt into small fields, green velvet for pasture and brown corduroy velvet for plough; distant hills, crowned with cairns of rock which dated back to a time, so long ago, that it was beyond comprehension; the estuary, its flood-waters blue with reflected sky, like a huge land-enclosed lake, but it wasn’t a lake at all, for it filled and emptied with the tides, flowing out to sea down the deep-water passage known as the Channel. This book is just over a thousand pages long as it follows a massive chunk of Judith’s life from early teenage years to mid twenties but I loved every page and it is an amazing read. I'm not even sure, but there is something wonderfully familiar about it, something cozy, human and warm about the story itself.

They emerged in small groups, jostling and giggling and uttering shrieks of cheerful abuse at each other, before finally dispersing and setting off for home. Rosamunde Pilcher's worlds, as always, are filled with people who you would love to meet and consider friends. Judith is left on her own, yet along the way, via her best friend at school, there are people who enter her life and become her second family. 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.During that time, the Dunbars had travelled home once for a Long Leave, but Judith had been only four at the time, and memories of that sojourn in England were blurred by the passage of years. I cried with Judith, worried with her and for her, sometimes wanted to give her a shake, but mostly cheered her on her journey through life. Clare's Polwithen and Howell's School Llandaff before going on to Miss Kerr-Sanders' Secretarial College.

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.David Wood, chair of Action for Children’s Arts, said Morpurgo is “one of our greatest storytellers”. In 1949 Pilcher’s first novel was published under the pseudonym Jane Fraser, she went on to publish a further ten novels under that name. The characters were charming, and the narration was great, so if you're looking for a quick,romantic read, I would encourage you to pick this up! The vibes for this book were just immaculate, and listening to the band during Touré grand gesture had me close to tears cause it truly put me back to my HBCU days.

They are an odd assortment: The best-friend the reader cannot do without, the romantic, the family atmosphere that Judith so craves---- and in end, the excitement involved with simply putting all these characters together in one story. Her father worked in Colombo, in Ceylon, and for four years Judith, her mother, and her little sister had lived apart from him.Years later, Touré is an award-winning investigative journalist and Niomi is America's most popular morning-show host, but they both feel like something’s missing. The story begins in the late 1930's, and of course the reader knows right away that we will see young Judith (around 14 in the first chapter) dealing with the trauma of WWII and how it affects her life and the lives of those around her. The story itself seems to flow quite well, albeit sometimes in a manner that is not entirely convincing. COMING HOME has all elements that a good book has---- well built characters, a big problem, a careful solution, romance, relationships that steadily build, and the change that all main characters' make from the first time you meet them, to the last.