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A Sensible Life by Mary Wesley
Category: Fiction
She was a thin, lonely child with huge eyes and an extensive vocabulary of French foul language. Amongst the elegant middle-class British families holidaying in Dinard in 1926 - leading their privileged lives of secure routine pleasures - Flora was a ten-year-old misfit. Ignored by her self-absorbed par ...Show more
An Imaginative Experience by Mary Wesley
Category: Fiction
A traveller on an InterCity train returning to London smells the burn of brakes as it hisses to a stop in the middle of the countryside. He sees a white-faced woman leap from the train and race to the aid of a sheep stranded on its back, unable to rise, in a field. Righting it, she turns, and he sees he ...Show more
Darling Pol - Letters of Mary Wesley and Eric Siepmann 1944-1967 by Mary Wesley; Patrick Marnham (Editor)
Category: Biography
'They met by chance in the Palm Court of the Ritz Hotel on the evening of 26 October 1944. By the time she eventually caught the train back to Penzance two days later they had fallen in love and Eric had declared that he was determined to marry her...' Mary Wesley told her biographer Patrick Marnham be ...Show more
Not That Sort of Girl by Mary Wesley
Category: Fiction
'Rose, don't leave me. Promise never to leave me,' said Ned on their wedding night, revealing an unexpected chink in his perfect armour of wealth, good looks, and country estate.Rose promised.Before the wedding, Mylo had said, 'In bed, with Ned, you will wonder whether this curious act of sex would not, ...Show more
Part of the Furniture by Mary Wesley
Category: Fiction
Early in 1941, having just seen off at Euston Station the two young men whom she has loved for the best part of her seventeen years, Juno Marlowe is hurrying down a London street with her ill-fitting shoes in her hands. Aeroplanes thunder overhead; a battery of guns opens up. When a stick of bombs falls ...Show more
Second Fiddle by Mary Wesley
Category: Fiction
Laura Thornby, independent, individual, and slightly exotic, manages her life with exquisite control. Her affairs are brief but delightful, her career fulfilling, and she copes with her two rather peculiar elderly relatives with wryness and humour. But when she meets twenty-three-year-old Claude Bannist ...Show more
The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
Category: Fiction
Oliver is just back from the Spanish Civil War and world-weary at only nineteen. Calypso is gorgeous, utterly selfish and determined to marry for money. Polly and Walter, brother and sister, play their cards close to their chests. Then there's little Sophie, who nobody loves. Soon the world will be swep ...Show more
The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
Category: Fiction
Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in the dizzying heat of August 1939, five cousins have gathered at their aunt's house for their annual ritual of a holiday. For most of them it is the last summer of their youth, with the heady exhilarations a ...Show more
The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
Category: Classics
'"I would give myself, darling, if it would do any good, but who am I? I love money and a good time, I'm enjoying the war, I find it exciting and frightening. I enjoy the raids, I like all the men taking me out"' Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. He ...Show more
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