The Baxters make plans to come together for a summer lakeside reunion, a celebration like they haven't had in years. Saint Ursula’s took day-girls as well as boarders, and these unfortunate creatures were much despised by Judith and Heather and their contemporaries at Porthkerris, and considered fair bait for teasing and torment should they be unlucky enough to travel on the same bus. It is a moment never to be repeated and indeed the family and friends will never be all together again. Because it was dark, she couldn’t look at it now as they rattled along, but knew it was there just the same.

Coming Home is definitely a big theme running through the book, but for me is most central for Judith and Gus. Produced by Sam Lakeman and mixed by Kevin Killen, Coming Home blurs the lines between spoken word and song to stunning effect. She began to run, her boot-bag thumping against her side; came to the long flight of granite steps which dropped to the railway station, and hurtled down them with the careless confidence of years of familiarity.

The air hums with what could have been, and they're tempted by what they could have right now, if only for one weekend. Content to adventure with Judith - to watch her grow and overcome - for most of the book, the end beautifully tied together multiple threads rendering me unable to put it down. All in all a great listen if you want something quick with a dash of emotion, heat, and some laughs.

As his feelings for Jessie begin to grow beyond friendship, how will he ever manage to protect her--not from her past--but from her future? It follows a girl (left in boarding school in England while her family goes to Singapore) before, during, and after WWII and goes back and forth between Cornwall, London, and various South Pacific locations.An affluent but warm and welcoming family, the Carey-Lewis’s will offer their beautiful dwelling on the Cornish coast as another home-away-from-home for Judith. The vicar explained that the church had been built upon this hillock above the beach so that its tower would be a beacon, a marker, for ships seeking a landfall and safe water, and it was not difficult to imagine those bygone galleons, their sails filled with wind, moving in from the open sea, and upstream with the running tide. Her father worked in Colombo, in Ceylon, and for four years Judith, her mother, and her little sister had lived apart from him. They were never in love, but they both definitely wanted more with each other in their college days, but life took them different ways. It’s been 20 years since they graduated, and the memory of a shared kiss all those years ago still begs the question - what if?