Coming Home (1998)

England between the wars is the starting place for this epic tale of love, friendship and the discovery of womanhood. Judith Dunbar (Emily Mortimer) is left behind at boarding school by her parents and sister, who are posted overseas in the days leading up to World War II. She comes of age in a time of turbulence and danger, but finds comfort in the wealthy Carey-Lewis family, whose estate on the Cornish coast, Nancherrow, becomes her surrogate home.


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With her family in Singapore, 14-year-old Judith Dunbar is left with the loneliness of life in an English boarding school. At St. Ursula's Judith makes a lifelong friend in the devil-may-care Loveday Carey-Lewis, who invites her home for the weekend. One glimpse at Nancherrow and the entire Carey-Lewis family, and it is love at first sight. Here, for the next few glorious years, Judith finds a home full of the laughter, love and comfort a maturing young woman needs. But with the coming of World War II and a failed love affair, Judith's enchanted life at Nancherrow soon proves too good to be true.