The Shell Seekers

by Rosamunde Pilcher

“I didn’t realize that money was so important to you.” “It’s not important to me. It never has been. It’s only important if you haven’t got any. And because it buys lovely things; not fast cars or fur coats or cruises to Hawaii or any of that rubbish, but real, lovely things, like independence and freedom and dignity. And learning. And time.”