Status Updates From Coming Home

They had climbed the tower and stood at the top in the buffeting wind, and he had pointed out interesting landmarks to her. It was like having all the world revealed, a huge and marvellously coloured map: farmland, patch-worked like a quilt into small fields, green velvet for pasture and brown corduroy velvet for plough. . .

Okay, folks, this is the same size as LONESOME DOVE, so Ms. Pilcher better have brought it, when she wrote this in the 90s! No pressure, but let's hope it was her magnum opus.