A novel by the author of "The Vacillations of Poppy Carew".

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Literature & Fiction

MARY WESLEY

Genre Fiction

Macmillan

Five cousins gather on their aunt’s camomile lawn and talk about the coming war. It is the last summer of their youth. Over the next few years they remain united by shared losses and loves, family ties and the absurd conditions imposed by the war. Through it all, they try to hang onto the part of themselves that laughed and played games on that camomile lawn.

The Camomile Lawn

Contemporary

Summit Books

Living happily alone in a seaside town in Cornwall, lovely Hebe supports her son at an expensive boarding school by cooking and discreetly making love for profit, until the unexpected happens

Harnessing Peacocks

London, Macmillan (1985)

After a brief but enjoyable dalliance with a visiting Romanian composer, Laura Thornby, fancy free and in her forties, encounters a struggling young 23-year-old and is swept by an irresistible desire to interfere, manipulate and experiment with him. This has unforeseen consequences.

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Mary Wesley 3-Book Set

Black Swan.

<p>Five cousins gather on their aunt’s camomile lawn and talk about the coming war. It is the last summer of their youth. Over the next few years they remain united by shared losses and loves, family ties and the absurd conditions imposed by the war. Through it all, they try to hang onto the part of themselves that laughed and played games on that camomile lawn.</p>

Harnassing Peacocks

BANTAM BOOKS

Not That Sort of Gir

A deft and delicate comedy of sexual manners, given rich substance and animation by the author's brilliant dialogue, fine wit, and irrepressible instinct to tell a story superbly.

Second Fiddle

<p>During a 1926 vacation at an idyllic Brittany resort, tourists meet and form friendships that will last a lifetime, but their tranquility is undermined by the threat of a crippling British strike, the rise of Bolshevism, and the shadows of war</p>

A Sensible Life

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The Camomile Lawn

Harnessing Peacocks

Second fiddle

Mary Wesley 3-Book Set

The Camomile Lawn

Harnassing Peacocks

Not That Sort of Gir

Second Fiddle

A Sensible Life