Judith is reasonably calm about it all indeed, she has more common sense and organisational ability than her somewhat flighty mother… This is because her mother and little sister Jess are going to join Judith’s father in Colombo, and then moving to Singapore, and back in the 1930s it wasn’t considered appropriate to have British teenagers living in Asian cultures. She’s saying goodbye to her best school friend, as she is shortly to move to a boarding school. The main protagonist is Judith Dunbar, who is fourteen when the story opens. But Pilcher is such a good writer that even my least favourite of her novels is well worth re-reading. Of her four saga-length novels, it’s the one I recalled as liking the least it takes place before and during World War II and has one or two sordid as well as tragic scenes. It’s fourteen years since I last read ‘Coming Home’, a saga novel with over 1000 pages. Gradually I’m re-reading Rosamunde Pilcher’s novels, most of them for the third or fourth time.
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