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Summary: I LOVE this book!
Review: This is my favorite book. I'm reading it again - again.My favorite thing about this book is the way you get to feel so close to all of the characters. You follow the life of one girl through WWII. It might sound a little boring but, believe me, this girl's life is anything but ordinary. She is left in a British boarding school while her parents are living in Singapore. She is 14 and starting school in an unfamiliar place. Eventually she makes friends with Loveday Carey-Lewis (silly name, I know) and this changes her life drastically. As Judith grows she encounters loss, love, and a creepy old guy. It's a book about growing up and, of course, coming home. Rosamunde Pilcher makes all of the characters seem so real. It is easy to picture them in your mind and even easier to feel for them. Judith is not the only character whose life you get caught up in. There are many characters who we can all relate to. Personally, I think I'm a bit like Loveday. Anyway, this book is a definite must-read.
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Summary: Some interesting characters, some predictable characters
Review: I've read the book 3 times, so I must find it worthwhile. Some very good characterizations: Judith, Gus, Jess and some very interesting relationships that I wish had been developed more fully. Unfortunately, there were some central casting characters as well: Diana is straight out of a 1930's MGM movie. But many of the scenes Pilcher writes (especially Judith's reunions with Jess and Gus) seem true to life and that's what you'll remember. My I recommend Elizabeth Jane Howard's Cazalet Chronicles to any of you who liked this book? Starting with "The Light Years", this series of 4 books tells the story of an English family from 1938 to 1947. An excellent work!
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Summary: Sorry to see it ended...
Review: I became a fan with the "shell seekers" and read all her books ever since.
I relished every word of Coming home.... and I hope one day to visit Cornwall!!!
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Summary: not the shell seekers
Review: It's pretty difficult to rate any of Pilcher's books above the Shell Seekers. ... and this one does NOT make it.
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Summary: Sorry to see it ended...
Review: I became a fan with the "shell seekers" and read all her books ever since.
I relished every word of Coming home.... and I hope one day to visit Cornwall!!!
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Summary: Like Coming Home
Review: This is my favorite book ever. By the end of the book, I felt so close to Judith, the main character. Ms. Pilcher does such a beautiful job of following Judith's life, you feel as if you know her. Definitely Rosamunde Pilcher's best.
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Summary: The trip home was long but well-described
Review: 728 pages (hardback) of flowery descriptive prose that this aspiring poet loved and hated! I couldn't help thinking "where is that red pen?" to chop about 200 pages of mind-numbing detail from the script.
HOWEVER, Coming Home is a geographic of the heart, not hearth. It challenges definitions of family and class distinctions, and it underscores that home is the place from which we face the world, hopefully surrounded by love, faith and consistent support.
This is a great bedside book and worth the time it takes to read!
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Summary: Favorite Book Ever
Review: This book is one of my all time favorites. It's an amazing story about a girl's coming of age during World War II. The friendships and romances in this book are heartfelt and touching, as is the emotion of a family dealing with the pressures of war. It's Pilcher's best, in my opinion, although The Shell Seekers is a close second.
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Summary: Another Novel of Pilcher, Wonderfully Written!
Review: I really got into the book after the first couple of chapters where Pilcher sets her tone of the story. I enjoyed the characters very very much, and could follow Judith Dunbar, the young girl, as she experiences many events starting through her life at the boarding school, and beyond. As always with Pilcher, she describes the emotions very well, as though the characters at one time reaslly exsisted and experienced these events back in the time of the Depression. I think it is a GREAT read, and HIGHLY recommend it to anyone craving a good family saga!
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Summary: Below-par writing that fails to enchant
Review: As soon as sufficient characters are introduced in "Coming Home", any reader with her eyes open (I must say her, because who could imagine any male ever suffering all the way to the end? even I couldn't manage that) can predict just what the resolution of the novel's relationships will be. Unfortunately, in a novel populated with "Diana"s, "Athena"s, "Loveday"s, "Rupert"s, and "Carey-Lewis"es, the plot can rise no higher than the silliness of its character names. Look out for the plain, Anglo-saxon names-- they'll be the tolerable characters. I tried, I really did, but I couldn't get interested in the people and events of this book. They fell flat, somehow: to me Pilcher's storytelling was too obviously invented. The moments designed to bring readers to tears evoked laughter. And despite a clear facility for language and vocabulary, Pilcher's paragraphs left me bored and reduced to skimming. Perhaps I didn't thrill properly to descriptions of Cornish lifestyle and atmosphere, but what a hoot were the meticulous descriptions of how each room was furnished, each character attired, and how each garden lay! Lines of extraneous minutiae to set each scene; I'm no expert, but "show, don't tell", Ms. Pilcher, for greater effectiveness in writing. But my favorite was the description of alcohol! It added humor, if no visible plot advancement, to be frequently enlightened that so-and-so had sherry, X had cider, Y had whisky and soda, and Z had beer. I don't lack heart and I recognize the drama of the WWII backdrop, but the novel falls sadly short of potential. Also it's hard to take seriously a wartime novel with a pale pink cover, floral script, and embossed roses on the jacket. Perhaps better as a film in which the scenery of Cornwall could be seen and not described, and the men and women could be visibly proven to have substance. How highly amused am I that my copy was a respectable-looking, hardbound edition, instead of the paperback novel which in all rights it ought always to be.
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