The book Rosamunde Pilcher was born to write

"..... classy, lavish entertainment from a writer whose unpretentious prose always flows smoothly, never offends and offers literate pleasure... destined to equal the extraordinary success of her previous novels..."

-starred Publishers Weekly

".....pure, old-fashioned pleasure. I loved every minute of it."

- Chris Chase, Cosmopolitan

The Shell Seekers and September, selling some ten million copies worldwide, catapulted author Rosamunde Pilcher to the top of the bestseller lists and established her as one of today's most popular and beloved storytellers. The Shell Seekers became an international phenomenon dominating the bestseller lists for two years. September was a smashing success that went to #1 in its very first appearance on The New York Times bestseller list.

Now, Rosamunde Pilcher has written COMING HOME, her biggest, most ambitious novel -- the capstone of a lifetime of writing. Like The Shell Seekers, COMING HOME is an intensely personal story. Like September, it teems with marvelous, memorable characters - people we believe in, people we care about, people we cherish and love.

COMING HOME tells the story of Judith Dunbar, a young girl who is left behind in a boarding school in the south of England when her family must move to Ceylon and then Singapore. When a school friend, Loveday Carey-Lewis, invites her home for the weekend, Judith falls in love with Nancherrow -- the family's beautiful estate -- and with the Carey Lewises themselves. She becomes a frequent guest and over the next few years, grows into a confident young woman, nurtured by the warmth of her surrogate family and their magical home. However, with the gathering clouds of World War II on the horizon, life changes for everyone at Nancherrow, and Judith must struggle to find a true home for herself in a shattered world.

COMING HOME is an evocative recalling of a time when the world went mad and when decent people, many of them very young, had to grow up quickly and confront issues of life and death. Warm, wise, and elegantly written with tenderness and sensitivity, it is a universal and totally involving story of coming of age, coming to terms with both love and sadness, and, in every sense of the term, COMING HOME.

COMING HOME is a Literary Guild Main Selection, a Doubleday Book Club Main Selection, and a Reader's Digest Condensed Books Selection.

About the author
Rosamunde Pilcher has had a long and distinguished career as a novelist and shory 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 most-loved storytellers of our time. Since then she has gone on to become a bestselling author of international acclaim. She lives in the countryside near Dundee, Scotland, with her husband, Graham.