Rating: 
Summary: Thoroughly enjoyable read!
Review: The perfect "curl up with" book, combining a close look at a young woman's "coming of age" with intense views of Britain's war years.
Rating: 
Summary: Can we expect a sequel?
Review: I hated to get to the end of this story, I have reread "Coming Home" three times and each time I have found details that I had previously missed and each time I have gotten lost in the story all over again.
Rating:
Summary: A wonderful book for snowy days
Review: After purchasing the hardbound volume at a local book store for $5.99 (yes, hard bound), I felt I couldn't go wrong with the price. I bought the book with the intention of reading it while in the Northeast over Christmas. The setting of the book as well as my physical surroundings gave it a kind of "being there" mystique. I am quite impressed by the text. Curiously enough, my stepmother who grew up in Great Britain during World War II wants to read it as the blackout curtains reminded her of times and people gone by. Excellent job, Rosamund.
Rating:
Summary: YOU WILL GO HOME WITH "COMING HOME"
Review: 1935 pre-World-War Two England and Judith Dunbar, a 14-year-old British girl, embarks on the long road to adulthood. With parents and baby sister stationed in Singapore, Judith remains in England to attend boarding school, a school which she is not very keen to attend at first, but will change the course of her young life forever. When she makes fast friends with Loveday Carey-Lewis, youngest child of the extremely wealthy Carey-Lewis's of Nancherrow, Judith swiftly becomes emeshed with their luxurious lifestyle, one of which she is not accustomed to, and is enveloped by their glamourous world and its inhabitants. When a torpedo blasts the submarine her young cousin Ned is stationed on, subsequently killing him, the war commences in full force and life for Judith and her family as well as her adopted family, the Carey-Lewis's, dramatically change. Loves are found and lost all too quickly, discoveries regarding those involved in Judith's life are shocking and sorrowful, and Judith's own revelations about her own self and life, will have the reader quickly turning pages amongst fallen tears. This is Rosamund Pilcher's England where you can envision fresh clean laundry hanging from lines, floating in the spring breeze and feel the cold chill your bones during a long Cornish winter, with it's gray wild sea. Her characters will become your friends and truly a part of your life, and when the last page is read and last tear shed, your life will be even more enriched than before you read the book and you will become a Rosamund Pilcher fan for life.
Rating:
Summary: A wonerful "comfort book"!
Review: This book rivals The Shellseekers as a warm, comfortable read that completely takes you to Rosamunde Pilcher's world of World War II England. You become totally immersed in the characters' lives, and it is as if you are living as they live, in their time. It is one of those rare books which make you sad to finish it because it is so hard to leave the characters behind. This is a must-read, particularly if you loved The Shellseekers.
Rating:
Summary: Another hit for the "queen" of England!
Review: Oh how I love to read ANYTHING by Rosamunde Pilcher. When she writes I can smell the flowers in the hedgerows and hear the gulls off the Cornish coast! She makes me homesick for a place I've never been. My only complaint is that its too long in between books
Rating:
Summary: Slow moving but continual flow in story
Review: The life of Judith, a school girl in Cornwall,
gently flows on while England is bound for war. Growing up among the gentry in Nancherrow exposes her
to experiences that, in several ways, conflict with
what she remembers being taught during her short time with her family. How she reflects on them and their
life as commoners living in Singapore, keeps them and their values
very near and dear to her.
While the scenery is such that you can reach out
and pick the flowers in Aunt Lavinia's garden,
or smell the smoke and wine on Judith's
first visit to a pub, the time spent there seems to
last forever. This occurs repeatedly throughout the
book even though almost every place you go with
Judith is breathtaking.
The author definitely overstays her welcome. This beautiful but lengthy story could have been written in half the pages.
I recommend that you definitely finish the book as
Judith and Loveday, her percocious friend, become lovely young women.
You'll be elated having travelled to such beautiful
places but expect to be exhausted from a great trip.
This would make a great movie.
Rating:
Summary: greatest read ever!
Review: I felt so close to Judith and her troubles and triumphs, almost as if I were her. Have kept the book close even though it is now falling apart. Best read in a long time. I felt like I was in England with Pilcher's wonderful use of words and discriptions. I look forward to reading more from her
Rating:
Summary: visually descriptive people, places and experiences
Review: if only coming home had not been my first pilcher novel, i would rate it a 10. the visually descriptive writing of pilcher makes me want to be in the bedrooms of diana and judith. their friendships and multi-generational gatherings made me long for the happier days of my own childhood. i see their experiences as essentially universal for many young women coming of age; even in the 90's. (yes 1990's). separation, personal loss, life choices that often come back to haunt us, were described by pilcher in a way that made this reader compare and reflect. although events were predictable, that in itself made for enjoyable reading; just knowing the author would not abandon or betray her reader made me get september, the very same day i finished coming home
Rating: 
Summary: Totaly predictable, from begining to end.
Review: It pains me to say this, but I thought that Coming Home was one of the most predictable books that I have ever read. I usually love Pilcher's stuff, so I ran out and bought the hardback of this book thinking that it would not dissappoint. I was mistaken. It started out with promise, but fell flat at parts when it could have really speeded things up. I found myself very bored and tired of the characters and their trivial problems. Boo,hoo. Poor me. This is what ran through my mind as I read this book. Don't waste the money or the time reading it. Read Shell Seakers again. It is by far a more profound and involving book
| 
