Coming Home

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Summary: Modern literature at its best.
Review: Brilliantly written. I'm not a fiction reader and don't like romance novels. However, I'm totally hooked on Rosamunde Pilcher now and have read three of her masterful books within the past two weeks. Coming Home is my favorite because of its epic nature and historical background. I didn't want the captivating story to end, despite sadness felt about the demise of a gentler, more civilized era.

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Summary: In depth reading
Review: I too read Shell Seekers first and I was also hooked to Rosumund Pilcher. "Coming Home" is a once in life time discovery. This book was nearly impossible to put down because of the insight Pilcher gave in each of the characters lives. I couldn't wait to find out about everyone in this book. Each character was well rounded and felt like an well known friend. Pilcher description of England during WWII left me feeling as if I was actually there. It was horrific and realistic all wrapped up into on large novel.

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Summary: One of my absolute favorites
Review: I read this book back in High School for the first time and have read it at least 5 times since. I just feel as if I identify so much with Judith, though I am unsure why. Her experiences in life, not necessarily with the war, ring true and one can relate to one episode or another in her own life. Of course set against WWII England and the way everyone pulled together for a common cause and actually had a "purpose" in life, brings the whole book together. I guess it is Judith's search for simplicity and beauty in life that makes this book a great read and draws me back again and again.

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Summary: A Book to Own
Review: I first read "Shell Seekers" and have been reading everything she writes ever since. "Coming Home" is a beautifully written look back at the time just before WW2, during and after. Living in America we sometimes don`t realize what the English endured for such a long time. Pilcher makes you live all the joy and sadness her characters go through. The second reading was just as satisfying as the first.

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Summary: Satisfying, yet not satisfying
Review: I LOVED this book from beginning to end - it really launched me into the life of Judith Dunbar and made me think about my own life experiences, romances, etc. From a writer's perspective, there were parts that I felt like I myself could have written because they were spelled out just as I had wanted them to (like when Jeremy and Judith inadvertantly meet up in the Mews House in London). However, I felt Pilcher got very long-winded near the end of the novel, and I kept yearning as the reader for MORE of Jeremy and Judith's relationship. It became very frustrating by the end of the book - I felt Pilcher was going on a track that I didn't want to read as much about (Gus and Loveday meeting up again and the Carey-Lewises). I wanted a lot more depth and dimension to Jeremy and Judith's love story, as it seemed incomplete somehow and would have made the book fuller.

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Summary: You will not be able to put this one down.
Review: Whether you belong to the WWII generation, or are a Gen-Xer, you will love this book. There is history and romance, but what stands out in my mind the most about this book is the dialogue, utterly british, sometimes funny, and always revealing. The main characters are so real that you feel like you know them by the time it is over. I have read it twice in 4 years and each time I have finished I have cried my eyes out, sorry that it had to end.

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Summary: One of the best historical-romances ever written!!
Review: I loved this book. It takes you back to a time that was confusing but yet still seems simpler. It was wonderfully written and contained a great deal of detail. I loved this book and I would recommend it to anyone who truly loves to read.

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Summary: Simply a masterpiece
Review: I love all of the Pilcher novels that I have read (all but four), but Coming Home is something of a masterpiece. Mrs Pilcher is truly a genious in the way she writes. Her way of mesmerizing and totally capturing the reader into the story. I, the reader, having read this novel , hmmm, lets think now, three... no, four times in the last year or so, am having trouble putting the book down eventhough I know what happens. I feel that way about all of her novels for that matter but Coming Home is something special.

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Summary: Wonderful book!
Review: I am reading this book for the second time and enjoying it even more than the first time around. A wonderful book full of great characters, making you feel like you are living the story. It has a permanent place in my library.

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Summary: memory of a life
Review: I am a 16 year-old italian girl. I read it, i loved it, i'll never forget it.