Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Coming Home
Book Review: Charming characters and engrossing detail...a must read!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is by far one of my favorite novels of all time. I was captured by the vivid detail and realistic characters. I couldn't put this one down. I would recommend this book to anyone who has a love for life, and an imagination that can take you into the heart of this fullfiling story!Book Review: Comfort Reading
Summary: 4 Stars
I listened to the audiotape of this wonderfully descriptive book and thoroughly enjoyed Lynn Redgrave's remarkable narration. She is so good at this! (the only disconcerting thing I found with the tape was the random bursts of overly dramatic music. They seemed so out of place--inserted with no apparent thought given to what was occurring in the narration).That said, I thought this story was lovely, typical Pilcher fare. One can be pretty sure that all the loose ends will be tied up, that the lost will be found and the bad dealt with in a most genteel manner.
I always appreciate the period details in Pilcher's writing and this was no different. The reader always learns something when reading her books. She manages to entwine historical facts in with a family story in a seamless fashion.
This is the story of Judith Dunbar and in a secondary way, that of Loveday Carey-Lewis, including all of both families (dysfunctional, functional, and in-between!). Covering the years of 1935 (when both girls were 13) through the end of the Second World War, this book was large in scope and in its portrayal of its many interesting characters.
Pilcher does a great job of character development - the reader is quite easily able to identify with the characters who populate this book. The genteel British lifestyle, despite the looming war, is lovingly portrayed.
I agree with the reviewer who thought a sequel would be interesting.
Book Review: Coming Home
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently purchased a new paperback copy of this book as I had worn my first paperback copy to shreds! I love this title. I had already read most of Rosamund Pilcher's titles before this one first came out. I saw it on a 20% off sale at the local Target at Christmas time in 1995, and bought it immediately. I was so pleased to have it, and it has proven to be a book that still enraptures me. It never bores or frustrates. The television program that evolved from it did not suit me. If it did not suit you and you have not read the book, please do. Rosamund Pilcher's grasp of the English language will entrance you.
I reread it about 6 times a year, and lately I have noticed that it is a novel for life changes: divorce, friendship breakups, physical moves, personal triumphs, recovery from life-threatening illnesses. I am now reading the novel for the second time inside one month; only this time, I am reading the brand new paperback copy that I just bought from Amazon. I read the old copy while I was packing to move toward the middle of August 2010. I am rereading it again as I unpack here in my new apartment here in September 2010. Hopefully, this copy will last a long as the first one I had did - packing tape notwithstanding!
One of the aspects of the novel that I so love are the continuancies of the various relationships. In a current age of friendships going by the wayside, and the inherent lack of ethics everywhere, this novel is about relationships which continue throughout life...creative, ethical, loving, wonderful people in the middle of growing up during WW II who stand by each other in a heart-warming way! If you have not read this book, you might want to start. It will help see you through everything!
Book Review: Coming Home
Summary: 3 Stars
I am delighted with my purchase.
This novel is set pre and post second world war, England. Pilcher writes with knowledge and grittiness but with beautiful discription of scenery and occasion. I have enjoyed every moment I have spent with her characters. The main character, Judith, is a girl who is left in a boarding school by her parents while her father serves in Singapore. While at boarding school she meets a friend and is invited to spend school breaks with the friend's family. Over the years she becomes part of this family and the story proceeds with characters within the family playing a large part in an engaging story of loss, love and human kindness.
Judith's parents are lost to concentration camps after the fall of Singapore but her small sister is returned to England in very sorry state. The whole novel discribes the privations of wartime without sentiment but adequately enough for the reader to 'feel' the difficulties imposed.
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Book Review: Coming Home is a rare book to behold!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you enjoyed any of Rosamunde Pilcher's previous works, you will treasure "Coming Home". Pilcher once again manages to combine literary art with warm, beautiful characters that you can easily open your heart to. Judith is to be admired for her bravery and compassion. The Carey-Lewises's made me laugh, cry, and laugh again. They made you rejoice for Loveday and Gus, and pity Edward. Pilcher creates a family that you feel is your own. I have read this book more times than I can count, yet I will read it again and again.