Coming Home

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I am thrilled to report this was just as magical and entrancing as I had hoped and come to expect from this author.

Coming Home: An uplifting feel good novel with family secrets Coming Home: An uplifting feel good novel with family secrets

The perfect kind of book to read curled up in bed with a cup of tea and endless hours ahead, my only grievance was it made me hugely homesick for all things quintessentially British. The two of them then start to find there is more chemistry between them than they initially thought, as the two of them find themselves working in close proximity together. At such a slow pace the author is telling this story, with this delightful writing that I personally cannot get bored of, even if in the case of this book it expands to hundreds of pages. Cassandra Dewell can’t leave Montana’s Lewis and Clark County fast enough for her new job as chief investigator for Jon Kirkbride, sheriff of Bakken County. I could close my eyes and see the Laura Knight image Pilcher described and I knew who Loveday was and who she was to Gus.The Making of Always Coming Home: A panel at Mythopoeic Conference XIX Berkeley, California, July 31, 1988". One of Pilcher's longest and most complex novels, as well as one of her most popular works, is The Shell Seekers (1988).

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With a little real effort on the author's part this could easily have been a much better read, one with the Big Reveal not having been telegraphed from the first quarter of the book. After arriving at her grandmother's home, Jess discovers a true crime book In Nora's bedroom, chronicling the police investigation into a long-buried tragedy: the Turner Family Tragedy of Christmas Eve, 1959. Finally, the example of Judith's friend's mother, who had a "bolt-hole" apartment in London and was pleased to have her friends use it and thus share the joy is something that has guided me in real life.The romance part in this novel was quite hideous and not interesting especially when it comes to the protagonist ( Judith just seems too much of a victim, I can't understand why a woman capable of caring for so much people would have such a hard time writing a damn letter to somebody she cares about), but the historical part of the novel, as well as all the sum of all life stories shared, somehow made up for it. I loved that Judith is a regular person, not a saint but quite admirable, and challenges are presented over which she prevails. In 1996, her novel Coming Home won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by Romantic Novelists' Association. On 7 December 1946, she married Graham Hope Pilcher, a war hero and jute industry executive who died in March 2009. Perhaps it is the sum of all those human stories (and there are a lot of stories and characters in this one).

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There are a host of characters in Coming Home, but they are like your family--you do not forget who they are or where they fit into the fabric of Judith’s life. Lou is very close to her dad and they were inseparable during her childhood, and eventually adulthood. Long before the houses of stone and timber and iron, before the roads and cars and fences, before the rows of grapevines and apple trees and the cattle in the paddocks. The Valley of the Na [River] is modeled on the landscape of California's Napa Valley, where Le Guin spent her childhood when her family was not in Berkeley. Amy's references to physical characteristics of horses to analyze equine personality are based on Tellington-Jones' book "Getting in TTouch: Understand and Influence Your Horse's Personality.

I usually don't have mixed feelings about romance books, because usually I don't like them, as romance is not really my kind of genre, so my mixed feelings actually indicate something positive about this novel. I later read The Carousel and September and while I was recommended Coming Home many, many months ago, it was serendipity that finally brought it to my reading pile. Pilcher's books always look like romance novels, and some do have a touch of romance included, but they are so much more than that. Anyone who has read Pilcher’s novels know that she excels at a certain kind of cultural romanticism - especially as it relates to big houses, cosiness and hospitality - and Nancherrow is truly the exemplar of the grand-but-welcoming country house tradition. Gulls hung screaming overhead, and the thunder of the waves was continuous, creaming up onto the shore, and then drawing away again, with a tremendous hissing sound.