Pilcher said the book's heroine, Judith Dunbar, is not her.
For more personal aspects she turned to her childhood in Cornwall, England, and her wartime service in Sri Lanka, then Ceylon, where she was working when the first atomic bomb was dropped. "It was a labor of love, really," she said.įor historical accuracy she turned to Winston Churchill's six-volume history of World War II. At one point, she found herself with too many characters and had to rewrite the entire first half. "It was much more work and a much longer book than I thought it would be," said Mrs. "It's not autobiographical, but it's about my own experiences," she said.Ĭonsequently, the 728-page novel not only proved more difficult to write but took five years to complete, including two years of planning, according to her editor, Mr. Pilcher, 70, in an interview from her home near Dundee, Scotland. Martin's Press) the story of a family in Britain in the years around World War II, is by comparison "not so fictional," said Mrs.
The new novel, like those books, draws from her life. When she first began writing "Coming Home," Rosamunde Pilcher expected to finish the novel, her 13th, within a year, less time than it took to write her earlier best sellers, "The Shell Seekers" and "September."
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