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Ben Litton er en genial maler, men en dårlig far. Datteren Emma sendes om 14-årig uden videre på kostskole i Schweiz, hvorefter faderen fuldstændig glemmer hendes eksistens. Emma tvinges til at blive en selvstændig kvinde før tiden, men hun er følelsesmæssigt dybt frustreret. Da faderen slår sig ned i Cornwall, beslutter Emma derfor at slutte sig til ham og forsøge at få det familieliv, hun altid har savnet. Ben Litton er en genial maler, men en dårlig far.

Enter Rosamunde Pilcher's world of simple joys, of crisp country air and crackling log fires, the pleasures of family reunions and rediscovered friendships. Through thick mist and a cold east wind, Lavinia returns to Scotland. Up at the big house, Mrs Farquhar is dying. Seeing Lachlan again, Lavinia remembers her childhood holidays there: swimming in the loch, the picnics, bottle-feeding the lambs down at the farm and the evenings when they danced reels. Most of all, she remembers Mrs Farquhar's grandson Rory.

At her dying mother's bedside, Rebecca Bayliss is shattered to learn of a family she never knew existed. Determined to find them, Rebecca journeys to Boscarva, a beautiful mansion in Cornwall, to meet a family torn by passion and greed. From her grandfather Grenville Bayliss, who is hiding an explosive secret, to a handsome cousin whose kisses are dangerously seductive, to sensual craftsman Joss Gardner, whose past hints of intrigue, Rebecca becomes entangled in a family mystery.

Can you ever re-create that first great love? Victoria Bradshaw fell in love with London playwright Oliver Dobbs when she was just 18. But he left her and disappeared from her life. Now, years later, he is a widower standing on her doorstep with his two-year-old son in his arms. And Victoria is foolish enough to want to take him back. Their early spring journey to a castle in Scotland becomes an odyssey of emotional discovery....

Caroline Cliburn was to be married next Tuesday, and yet she suspected that gratitude was the wrong reason to become a bride. Perhaps that was why she and her younger brother Jody had taken the long drive north to Scotland in search of her missing brother Angus.... When a sudden spring blizzard leaves them stranded by the roadside, it is the snow that gives both her and a lonely young Scot one last chance to find the healing warmth of love.

Flora and Rose are identical twins who do not know of each other's existence. Rose has been raised by her frivolous mother with the glossy international jet set. Flora has spent her childhood in the beauty and quiet of her father's Cornish cottage. And then, by chance, they meet. The encounter seems heaven-sent to Rose, who longs to escape from a man she no longer desires. Flora can free her, and, in taking her sister's place, her uneventful life is changed forever.

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...

Efter mange års ophold i USA vender Jane hjem til det rolige skotske landsted, Elvie, hvor hun tilbragte sin dejlige barndom. Minderne fra Elvie har altid været forbundet med den elegante Sinclair, som hun altid har drømt om at gifte sig med. Men nu, da hun er vendt hjem, opdager hun, at Sinclair er blevet en helt anden mand. Hans charmerende væremåde virker falsk, som om den tjener et bestemt formål, og Jane kan ikke længere stole på ham.

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...

Den unge troskyldige Victoria bliver pludselig revet ud af sin trygge dagligdag som ekspedient i London: Hendes gamle kæreste, Oliver, tropper op med sin moderløse 2-årige søn. Sammen tager de op til et skotsk landsted, hvor Oliver har en forfatterkollega for at finde tilbage til hinanden. Her møder de tilfældigvis John, en ung rig amerikaner og arving til landstedet, og med ét ændres alting.

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.

"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...