Coming Home
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Rosamunde Pilcher
Teeming with marvelous, memorable characters in a novel that is a true masterpiece, Rosamunde Pilcher's Coming Home—the basis for the TV miniseries of the same name—is a book to be savored, reread, and cherished forever.Against the backdrop of an elegant Cornwall mansion before World War II and a vast continent-spanning canvas during the turbulent war years, this involving story tells of an extraordinary young woman's coming of age, coming to grips with love and sadness, and in every sense of the term, coming home...In 1935, Judith Dunbar is left behind at a British boarding school when her mother and baby sister go off to join her father in Singapore. At Saint Ursula's, her friendship with Loveday Carey-Lewis sweeps her into the privileged, madcap world of the British aristocracy, teaching her about values, friendship, and wealth. But it will be the drama of war, as it wrenches Judith from those she cares about most, that will teach her about courage...and about love.
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Author
Rosamunde Pilcher
Pages
977
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published Date
2013-04-23
ISBN
1466824972 9781466824973
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"Second Chance, the one that got away novella is absolutely perfect! It is short, sweet and to the point. I love Toure and Niomi. Kennedy Ryan knows how to get you invested in her characters. The HBCU setting was just the cherry on top! The narrators were top notch!"
Arleisha Strauder
"This is my first Kennedy Ryan and now I 100% understand the hype I have heard and am so disappointed that she doesn’t get even more hype! This was a novella and FANTASTIC. It was so tender, realistic, funny, and sexy. And the narration for this audiobook was perfect!<br/><br/>I LOVED seeing MCs over 40 and acting like it like going to bed on time since they both had important things to do the next day. This was a breath of fresh air and while I don’t read contemporary books very often, I’m officially hooked on Kennedy Ryan!<br/><br/>And honestly this is the type of book that certain white women would say “I just couldn’t connect with the characters”. Not because the characters are in any way unrelatable (because these characters are nothing if not relatable), but because the author wrote an unapologetically Black story. They’re at an HBCU, there’s a step performance, the end has the marching band playing on the audio, and there are few (if any) white characters.<br/><br/>It’s spectacular and it’s not written with the white gaze in mind. Unfortunately that’s probably why I see mostly Black women promoting Kennedy Ryan’s books. BUT for all those who would NOT say some nonsense like “I couldn’t relate” just because the story centers Black characters, we’ll all LOVE this short and very sweet second chance romance!<br/><br/>Can’t wait to read more from Kennedy Ryan!"
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