Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Coming Home
Book Review: A DELICIOUS BOOK
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of those books full of lucious imagery and descriptions that made this reader want to hug herself with delight in savoring every well-chosen word. Pilcher's word pictures are so vivid and original. She's got a great story-line too, but COMING HOME was most memorable for me in the power of her word choices.Book Review: A Good Girl's Life
Summary: 5 Stars
Judith Dunbar, who is 13years old when the story begins in 1935. She was sent to boarding school in Cornwall because her parents are posted to Singapore.She makes friends and a new life but never stops missing her family. Judith developes into adulthood in the midst of wealth, tragedy, and romance. I loved the book and I know you will too.
Book Review: A Refreshing Read
Summary: 5 Stars
It isn't often that an author such as Rosamunde Pilcher comes around. She writes in the narrative voice that literally coaxes you to go to the couch and curl up with a pot of tea and her novel. COMING HOME was the first Pilcher book I read and afterward I was captured as one of her biggest fans. Pilcher has a way with each of her books to capture her readers from the first page to the last. In any Pilcher novel the reader finds themselves relating to the main characters by feeling their pain and their happiness.In COMING HOME, this main character is Judith Dunbar who finds herself torn from her family due to World War II. Pilcher takes the reader to Cornwall and a festive amount of characters that Judith begins to know. 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.
After reading COMING HOME I found myself in love with Judith and her best friend, Loveday Carrie-Lewis. The entire novel was simply enchanting. Readers of Pilcher's are looking for a book written with class, a good narrative voice, and a happy ending.
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. COMING HOME is a wonderfully classy read. All readers will find themselves in enthralled with Judith's life and all who are in it.
At the end of each Pilcher novel you sigh because it's over, and you're running to get another. All Pilcher-readers find themselves loving her easy going, narrative voice which is completely refreshing. Pilcher takes on a voice in COMING HOME that makes World War II seem more bearable to read about, and all crisis's easier to deal with. If people could live their lives like Pilcher writes a novel, everything would seem just a little bit easier to deal with. After a long day at work or at school, COMING HOME is the perfect book to take a load off and just wrap up in a novel that will entertain the reader until it sadly comes to an end.
Book Review: A Wonderful Book for a Winter Weekend
Summary: 5 Stars
I had read this book a few years ago, but decided to check it out from my library last Saturday before a snowstorm arrived. What a great book to be snowed in with.In addition to being a good love story involving several couples, it is a great book on life as it was before and during WW II in Great Britain. The hardships the people endured are told in great, and sometimes amusing, detail. No matter how bad things become people just carry on. A good cup of tea seems the answer to everything! Descriptions of food and houses are thorough.
I would hope that younger women would read this for the historical value. It is a way of life that will never return.
Book Review: A book that drew me in.
Summary: 5 Stars
When I first began to read this novel I thought oh boy this book is so very descriptive I'm never going to get into this, but I pushed on. About half way through I realized had it not been so very descriptive I wouldn't have fell in love with the characters. This was the very first book that I had to set down. It was one particular place in the book that I was so moved I just couldn't read on. Kind of like the place in a movie where you would start crying. Anyway I thought that it was a wonderful book and would recommend.