The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

A cherished painting reveals a family's divided loyalties

Fair Condition - Covers/spine heavily creased, corners torn/chipped, edges worn. Page edges lightly marked; pages clean and readable.

At sixty-four, Penelope Keeling looks back on a life that has held more variety and feeling than her grown children fully understand. Her memories reach from a bohemian childhood to wartime experiences and the relationships that shaped her independence. When a painting by her father acquires considerable financial value, her children see an opportunity that Penelope regards very differently. Their competing expectations force her to consider what she wishes to preserve and what she owes to herself. Rosamunde Pilcher moves between past and present in an expansive family novel about love, money and the meaning of inheritance. The picture at its centre becomes a way of asking which treasures can be valued and which cannot.