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Zusatztext Captivating . . . The best sort of book to come home to . . . Readers will undoubtedly hope Pilcher comes home to the typewriter again soon. Informationen zum Autor Rosamunde Pilcher had a long and distinguished career as a novelist and short story writer! but it was her phenomenally successful novel! The Shell Seekers ! that captured the hearts of all who read it! and won her international recognition as one of the best-loved storytellers of our time. It was voted one of UK's top 100 novels in the BBC's Big Read in 2003. Her bestselling novels! September ! Coming Home and Winter Solstice were made into television films. She was awarded an O.B.E for services to literature in 2002 and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Dundee University in 2010. Rosamunde Pilcher died on 6 February 2019. The bestselling, heartwarming tale of innocence and youth during the 1930s Zusammenfassung For Judith Dunbar! her first glimpse of Nancherrow! her friend Loveday's beautiful family estate on the Cornish coast! is love at first sight - after the rigours of boarding school it spells luxury. She falls in love! too! with all Loveday's family. They treat Judith as one of them. With their generosity and kindness! Judith grows from naive girl to confident young woman basking in the warmth of a surrogate family whose flame of love and affection burns brightly. But it is a flame soon to be extinguised in the gathering storm of war. In the danger and deprivation of the 'forties! those sun-drenched Cornish days seem as distant as a dream. Many of the young people whose carefree laughter echoed round Nancherrow will laugh no more. And Judith herself has far to travel before at last . . . coming home.
