Product Description

Born in Colombo, Judith Dunbar spends her teenage years at boarding school, while her beloved mother and younger sister live abroad with her father.



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.



She falls in love too with the generous Carey-Lewises themselves. 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. But it is a flame soon to be extinguished in the gathering storm of war. And Judith herself has far to travel before at last ... coming home.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #764944 in Books
• Published on: 1996-04-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 1024 pages

Woman & Home
'A great featherbed of a novel, all the right ingredients'

Review
'The novel has a gently sweet flavour, it continues to beguile because of Pilcher's warmth, sincerity and easy, undemanding prose' (The Sunday Times )

'Compelling pages packed with convincing characters, vivid settings and weepy bits' (Daily Mail )

'A great featherbed of a novel, all the right ingredients' (Woman & Home )

'Especially good on atmosphere and a lonely teenager's bewilderment, Pilcher's storytelling skills are serene and beguiling' (The Times )

Much-needed balm to soothe the troubled mind' (Sunday Express )

'A well-upholstered good read' (Daily Mail )

'Classy, lavish entertainment . . . literate pleasure' (Publishers Weekly )

'Captivating . . . The best sort of book to come home to . . . Readers will undoubtedly hope Pilcher comes home to the typewriter again soon.' (New York Daily News )

Daily Mail
'Compelling pages packed with convincing characters, vivid settings and weepy bits'

Customer Reviews

Great, magical a spellbinding novel!
I fell in love with the setting right from the start especially the big house Nancherrow along with all the characters. A brilliant read. I read it at the age of 11 and now at the ripe old age of 14 I still regard it as one of the best novels ever.

Absolutely fantastic! An enthralling read!!
What can I say about this book. It was so good that I could not put it down until I had it read from cover to cover. I saw the film on TV and it was good but it was nowhere near as brilliant as the book. It makes you cry, it makes you laugh but you cannot get away from the fact that it really touches you. The glamourous lifestyle at Nancherrow, Judith's growing up in all the different houses and at school too. Every single bit of this book was a good read and I have already reread it several times since buying it a few months ago.

Wonderfully comforting book
"Coming home" is one of my desert island books. Like other reviewers here, I have read and re-read this book many times. Rosamund Pilcher is a genius at painting a detailed picture in print. Her characters are compelling and human, despite some of them moving in circles fairly foreign to the average woman of today. I love her attention to detail and the complex cast of characters that she involves. She is also a master of descriptive scenery - without ever become too verbose! I recommend this title wholeheartedly to anyone who loves a warm, moving and delightful story. It's a great book to drag out and read for the umpteenth time when you are feeling a little unwell!