Jumping The Queue
$23.68
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
3 July 2006
Summary
‘A darkly comic tale of an ageing widow contemplating suicide but opting instead for a life-enhancing affair with a criminal on the run’ - Express
Matilda Poliport, recently widowed and largely estranged from her four adult children, has decided to End It All. She has cleaned her cottage, given away her beloved pet goose and burnt any incriminating letters. Now all that remains for her to do is eat her picnic, take her pills and swim out into the ocean. But her meticulously planned bi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099499152 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099499150 |
| Author: | Mary Wesley |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 3 July 2006 |
| Weight: | 149g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
I loved it for its extraordinary combination of despair and wild black humour
I loved it for its extraordinary combination of despair and wild black humour – Julia Blackburn
Great verve and inventiveness * Times Literary Supplement *
A virtuoso performance of guileful plotting, deft characterisation and malicious wit * The Times *
Quriky, sexy and deeply fascinating – Sheila Hancock
Mary Wesley
Mary Wesley was born near Windsor in 1912. Her education took her to the London School of Economics and during the War she worked in the War Office. Although she initially fulfilled her parent’s expectations in marrying an aristocrat she then scandalised them when she divorced him in 1945 and moved in with the great love of her life, Eric Siepmann. The couple married in 1952, once his wife had finally been persuaded to divorce him. She used to comment that her ‘chief claim to fame is arrested development, getting my first novel Jumping the Queue published at the age of seventy’. She went on to write a further nine novels, three of which were adapted for television, including the best-selling The Camomile Lawn. Mary Wesley was awarded the CBE in the 1995 New Year’s honour list and died in 2002.
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