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Coming Home
Historical fiction
Coming Home
In 1935, fourteen-year-old Judith Dunbar is left at an English boarding school when her mother and younger sister join her father overseas. Friendship with Loveday Carey-Lewis opens Nancherrow, the family's Cornish estate, and gives Judith a surrogate home among people whose lives become inseparable from hers. Her coming of age stretches through first love, separation, service, and loss as World War II transforms the privileged world she entered. Sweeping and immersive, this novel suits readers who enjoy long family sagas, Cornwall, boarding schools, wartime Britain, female friendship, and heroines who create a sense of belonging across years of departure and return.
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World War II violence and deaths; sexual assault; sexual content; infidelity; child and parental death; grief; antisemitism and genocide; confinement; alcohol/alcoholism; pregnancy; car accident and fire injury.
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