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  • 29 of 29 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 AnneLorraine1

    Member since 02/06/2010

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    5 Stars Camellias, Clotted Cream and a Country Estate-'Coming Home' 04/06/2010
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Beautifully written from start to finish.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages I was sorry to finish this book, even after the second read.

    Rosamunde Pilcher's 'Coming Home' is a masterpiece, transporting it's readers into a time gone by. Of Cornwall and England in the 1930s, when the whisper of an approaching war gradually builds into a roar. It describes a time of gentle opulence for the upper classes, a time when the gentry could easily staff their large estates from the local populace. A time before the world changed forever. This book, of over one thousand pages, begins in 1935 as two fourteen year old friends leave the local school of Porthkerris in Cornwall, as they break up for the Christmas holidays. Judith Dunbar, and ... more
  • 68 of 68 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 Kukana

    Member since 12/08/2003

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    5 Stars Growing up in the War Years 05/05/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Excellent characters, moving story, realistic historical background, satisfying conclusion

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Very long, a little slow to get started

    'Coming Home' is the kind of book that doesn't fit easily into a genre. It's perhaps primarily a coming-of-age book, but at the same time it's a historical novel set initially in the prelude to World War II, and it's also something of a family saga. It's the third of Rosamunde Pilcher's long novels (over 1000 pages in paperback) and unique amongst them in that it focuses on a young girl rather than an elderly lady, and is based in the 1930s and 1940s. The novel opens with Judith, an independent and sensible girl in her teens, preparing to go to boarding school as her mother and little sister ... more
  • 14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    DoubleFantasy11

    5 Stars Fall in love again and again... 15/08/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Well-written, descriptive, interesting and fully developed characters

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Long.

    Excluding children's books, I think I have read Coming Home more than any other book. Let's just say that it's a good job my mother bought it in hardback, because I dread to think what state a paperback would be in by now! Judith Dunbar is a girl in her early teens who has to change from her small town school to St Ursula's boarding school, because her mother and little sister are going to live with her father in Columbo, where she spent most of her childhood. This means that she also has to spend the holidays with her strict-but-kind Aunt Louise. At St Ursula's, Judith befriends Loveday Carey ... more
  • 20 of 20 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Muswell

    4 Stars A book to come home to 27/03/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Well-written, realistic, deep character portrayal

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Very long, complexity can be confusing

    I didn’t read Coming Home until after I’d seen ITV’s dramatisation of it, and even then I only picked it up because I saw it in a second-hand bookshop. I can only say I’m glad I did; contrary to what I had expected from a dramatisation which left out several major characters and a number of plot threads, this book has a level of complexity which effectively portrays the chaos of wartime life without harping on it too much. The book’s focus is on a young girl, Judith, who stays with a friend’s family in Cornwall during the summer holidays while her parents are in Singapore, then grows up to ... more
  • 5 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    xdidox

    5 Stars Charming book that will transport you away. 06/10/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Really engaging, with flashes of humour and grief.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages A lengthy read, often with too much description of the weather.

    The backdrop of beautiful Cornish countryside provides the serene beauty of the natural world within a coming of age story. The character of Judith symbolises the young within all of us, as she grows from a naive child to a confident young woman, facing the trials of adolescence and pain of war and losing loved ones. The plot's focus is the young Judith Dunbar, who in 1935, is sent to school in England, while her parents stay in Colombo due to her father's business. During the holidays she stays with her fiesty Aunt Lousie, who's friends include the dodgy Billy Fawcett. It is at school that ... more
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