The Camomile Lawn
$26.11
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
3 July 2006
Summary
A vivid and lively picture of wartime London and Cornwall as seen through the eyes of five cousins.
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 and freedoms of lost innocence, as well as the fears of the coming war.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099499145 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099499142 |
| Author: | Mary Wesley |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 3 July 2006 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
Provides equal does of sex and repression in war-torn Britain with panache and pace
Provides equal does of sex and repression in war-torn Britain with panache and pace * The Times *
A very good book indeed…rich in detail, careful and subtle in observation, mature in judgement – Susan Hill
Extraordinarily accomplished and fast-moving * Financial Times *
It’s hard to overpraise Mary Wesley’s novel…so tingling and spry with life that put a mirror to the book and I’ll almost swear it will mist over with the breath of the five young cousins * The Times *
Wesley’s sharp, witty writing really is hard to match * i *
About The Author
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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