The Shell Seekers

90008 (16 cassettes/23 hours). Copyright 1987 by Rosamunde Pilcher. P 1990 by Recorded Books, Inc. Unabridged. Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat. "The Shell Seekers is the name of an oil painting by Victorian painter Lawrence Stern, and is also the title of Rosamunde Pilcher's warm family saga. The three generations of heroines are Stern's daughter Penelope, her daughter Olivia, and a young girl named Antonia, whom Olivia and Penelope have adopted as surrogate daughter and graddaughter. A mild heart attack confronts Penelope with her own mortality, and she decides to return to the small town of Porthkerris on the coast of Cornwall to visit the scenes of her famous father's artistic life, and reflect on her own memories and her family's adjustments to the Stern legacy. Like the Stern canvases, the story stretches to wide horizons in intimate and exactly execute detail. And like the best art, it lives a life of its own. Penelope must come to terms with her wastrel son Noel, with Antonia's haunted young boyfriend Danus, and with the memory of Richard, the soldier who never returned from D-Day..." (from back case)