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. Teeming with marvellous, memorable characters in a novel that is a true masterpiece, Coming Home is a book to be savored, reread, and cherished forever.

A really enjoyable romantic and dramatic novel. I loved the Cornish setting & the minutiae of lives during the war. I would think that lost letters would have been quite commonplace when boats were being sunk all over the shop, so the only thing that irritated me was Judith's not considering that possibility for Jeremy's letter. I had trouble putting this family saga down when I really had to get some sleep to face the next day. Pilcher is a new find for me so I'll be keeping an eye out in the Op shops.

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