Coming Home. Rosamunde Pilcher.
A captivating story of coming of age, love, painful loss, and happy returns for an extraordinary woman, set against the backdrop of an aristocratic family's life in an elegant mansion amidst the picturesque Cornish countryside—a world suddenly swept, along with the entire continent, into the turbulent events of World War II.
In 1935, fourteen-year-old Judith Dunbar remains at a British boarding school while her mother and little sister, Jess, travel to join her father in Singapore. After befriending Loveday Carey-Lewis, the young woman enters the extravagant world of the British aristocracy, where she discovers true friendship and finds love.
However, the war tears Judith away from those she holds most dear. As she comes of age, she makes choices that teach her about courage... and love.
This is a brilliant novel featuring vividly drawn, captivating characters whose remarkable destinies leave no one indifferent. It is a book to savor, reread, and cherish forever...