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The Shell Seekers

The Shell Seekers

Author(s): Rosamunde Pilcher

Location(s): Cornwall, London

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 20th Century

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Artist’s daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly loved. She has brought up three children – and learned to accept them as they are.

Yet she is far too energetic and independent to settle sweetly into pensioned-off old-age. And when she discovers that her most treasured possession, her father’s painting, The Shell Seekers, is now worth a small fortune, it is Penelope who must make the decisions that will determine whether her family can continue to survive as a family, or be split apart.

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A long, beguiling saga, typically English . . . Splendid (Mail on Sunday )

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