The shell seekers

530 pages

English language

Published Nov. 11, 1987 by St. Martin's Press.

ISBN:
978-0-312-01058-4
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The Shell Seekers is a novel of connection: of one family, and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. The Shell Seekers is filled with real people--mothers and daughters, husband and lovers--inspired with real values. The Shell Seekers centers on Penelope Keeling--a woman you'll always remember in world you'll never forget. The Shell Seekers is a magical novel, the kind of reading experience that comes along only once in a long while.

At the end of a long and useful life, Penelope Keeling's prized possession is The Shell Seekers, painted by her father, and symbolizing her unconventional life, from bohemian childhood to wartime romance. When her grown children learn their grandfather's work is now worth a fortune, each has an idea as to what Penelope should do. But as she recalls the passions, tragedies, and secrets of her life, she knows there is …

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The only reason this book didn't get five stars was because I did think part of the book dragged on a bit. I did like the family connections, and the way the book was written.

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Subjects

  • Painters -- Family relationships -- Fiction
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Fiction
  • Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
  • Conflict of generations -- Fiction
  • Parent and adult child -- Fiction
  • Women -- England -- Fiction
  • Painting -- Fiction
  • England -- Fiction