Coming Home
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Plot Summary of Coming Home
"I really got into the book after the first couple of chapters where Pilcher sets her tone of the story. I enjoyed the characters very very much, and could follow Judith Dunbar, the young girl as she experiences many events through her life at the boarding school, and beyond. As always with Pilcher, she describes the emotions very well, as though the characters at one time really exsisted and experienced these events back in the time of the Depression. I think it is a GREAT read and recommend it to anyone craving a family-type saga. Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout. " Boppy, Resident Scholar
"British teenager Judith Dunbar is sent to a boarding school after her mother and sister must join her father in Asia. She makes friends with Loveday Carey-Lewis, whose rich family lives in a Cornwall mansion. Then when she receives word her family has died, she is taken in by the Carey-Lewis family. The novel follows her life through World War II as she comes of age." Vivacesunshine, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of Coming Home

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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book? - thoughtful
Time/era of story - 1930's-1950's
Kids growing up/acting up? Yes
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
War/Revolt/Disaster on civilians Yes
Something wrong upstairs/downstairs? - searching for identity/meaning
Parents/lack of parents problem? - Momma gone
Conflict: - War, WW II

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - student
Age: - a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American) - British
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - none

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 9 (quite a lot)
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK
The Americas (not US): Yes
The Americas: - South
Misc setting - fancy mansion

Style
Person - mostly 1st - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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