Nancy is lazy, ungrateful, and whiny Noel is spoiled, flighty, and wheedling and Olivia, the best of the three, can be cold and unloving at times (though her stint in Ibiza was one of my favorites in the book). Where Penelope is kind and generous and independent and loving, her children are the opposite. This book is more about the characters than the plot, though there is a hidden love story that influences many of Penelope’s decisions later on and is heartbreakingly beautiful the characters are what drive the book, however. The plot is simply the life of Penelope, from a young girl traipsing from Cornwall to London to France with her bohemian parents, to that of a young adult trapped in the midst of a war and a loveless marriage, to as she is in the present, a fiercely independent woman. When other works by her father, Lawrence Keeling, come onto the market and sell for a large sum, her children ask Penelope to look into selling the three artworks she has left. The Shell Seekers, a painting for which the book is named, is the last bit of her old life in Cornwall and her father than Penelope has left. The reader is introduced to her three children: Nancy, Olivia, and Noel and her backstory is woven through the present. The Shell Seekers takes place in England in 1984 (and no, there’s no Big Brother), and follows the story of Penelope Keeling, a 64-year-old woman who just had a heart attack. I chose to read The Shell Seekers to fulfill the “read a book your mom loves” challenge on the 2015 PopSugar challenge, and I got about what I expected.
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