# The Shell Seekers

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- Book: [The Shell Seekers](https://www.bookquiver.com/rosamunde-pilcher/the-shell-seekers) ([The Shell Seekers.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rosamunde-pilcher/the-shell-seekers.md))
- Authors: [Rosamunde Pilcher](https://www.bookquiver.com/rosamunde-pilcher)
- Publisher: hodder_stoughton
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-18-4456-366-1
- Published: 2006-06-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

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.