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Tvillingepigerne Rose og Flora bliver skilt fra hinanden kort efter fødslen. Den ene rejser med moderen til Amerika, den anden bliver hos sin far i Cornwall. Ingen af dem kender til den andens eksistens. En dag mødes de tilfældigt, og det sætter en handling i gang, som i hvert fald den ene godt kunne have undværet. De bytter roller, og Flora rejser til Skotland for midlertidigt at indtage Roses plads som Antonys forlovede.

Caroline og Judy Cliburn har næsten nået rejsens mål, da de overraskes af en snestorm midt ude på det skotske højland. De tvinges til at søge tilflugt på et ensomt beliggende gods, Cairney, og bliver inviteret til at bo på godset, indtil rejsen kan fortsætte. Caroline har svært ved at overskue situationen: De er sneet inde langt ude på landet sammen med en vildtfremmed mand, godsejeren Oliver Cairney, og om et par dage skal Caroline være tilbage i London til sit eget bryllup...

For første gang i sit liv aner Selina Bruce ikke, hvad morgendagen vil bringe - så organiseret, så tjekket, har hendes liv indtil da formet sig. Som en streg slået efter en lineal. Ikke at hun er ked af sit liv, slet ikke, der er bare ikke så mange lyspunkter at se frem til. Så hvad får hende til impulsivt at rejse til en lille spansk ø, efterladende en mildest talt forundret - og fortørnet - forlovet kort før brylluppet? Det må være noget ganske særligt - en far, hun aldrig har kendt, for eksempel, og som hun altid har troet var død.

Laura, newly married and ever conscious she may be living in the shadow of her husband Alec's first wife, decides to take a holiday with his family in Cornwall. Through the long hot summer days, she is slowly charmed by the beautiful old house and the people she learns to know and love. In time her uneasy spirit is soothed by the sparkling, brilliant sea, and her restless heart finally calmed.

Sitting on a California beach at summer's end, Jane Marsh thinks back to her childhood at the estate called Elvie in a remote corner of Scotland. She remembers not only the heather-covered hills and the lonesome loch but her grandmother...and, of course, Sinclair. She has secretly dreamed of marrying rakishly handsome Sinclair and settling at Elvie forever. Then an urgent visit from her grandmother's lawyer becomes the catalyst for her return to Scotland, where waiting for her is passion, not gentle love....

Prue is intelligent, artistic, independent - and bored. Pressured by her mother to make a conventional and dull marriage, she is delighted to escape London and seek retreat with her eccentric and bohemian aunt in Cornwall. A chance encounter with an attractive young artist on the seashore leads to day after idyllic summer's day of exploring the Cornish countryside and coast. But there is something troubling Daniel, and Prue - now deeply entangled - feels compelled to discover what it is.

Are you brave enough to wake the sleeping tiger? Selina Bruce has impulsively left behind her lawyer fiancé in London and flown alone to a tiny island off the Spanish coast. She is searching for the father she has never known, but what she finds is an unexpected truth about herself and the man she plans to marry. For exotic San Antonio offers Selina more than the penetrating brilliance of the noonday sun. It offers the mysterious George Dyer, who holds the key not only to her past...but to her heart.

Born in Colombo, Judith Dunbar spends her teenage years at boarding school while her beloved mother and younger sister live abroad with her father. When her new friend, Loveday Carey-Lewis, invites Judith home for the weekend to Nancherrow, the Carey-Lewises' beautiful estate on the Cornish coast, it is love at first sight.

Emma Litton can't get on with her life until she finds out just what place she has in her father's heart. She'd been at school in Europe since she was 14, then found a job in Paris, always wondering what her famous artist father was doing in Japan or America or at their cottage in Cornwall. Even after she meets Robert Morrow, a handsome gallery owner, and rediscovers her stepbrother, Christo, she still feels compelled to probe into the truth about her past.

Teeming with marvelous, memorable characters in a novel that is a true masterpiece, Rosamunde Pilcher's Coming Home—the basis for the TV miniseries of the same name—is a book to be savored, reread, and cherished forever. Against the backdrop of an elegant Cornwall mansion before World War II...

"A strong cast of five narrators rewinds time and transports listeners to sparkling seascapes and the English countryside." - AudioFile Magazine Celebrate life's journeys with the beloved author whose stories of life and love touched the world. A Place Like Home is a spellbinding collection of...