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

Jumping the queue

Literature & Fiction

MARY WESLEY

Genre Fiction

London: Macmillan, 1983

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

Macmillan

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)

The Vacillations of Poppy Carew

A novel by the author of "Jumping the Queue".

The vacillations of Poppy Carew

"Jumping the Queue", "The Camomile Lawn" and "Harnessing Peacocks" are the three novels included in this omnibus.

Mary Wesley Omnibus: Jumping the Queue / The Camomile Lawn / Harnessing Peacocks

Pan/Macmillan

Mary Wesley 3-Book Set

Black Swan.

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.

Black Swan Books

Not That Sort of Gir

On the threshold of their new life together, Margaret gave Henry a black eye and went straight to bed where she more or less remained for the rest of her life. Two young couples become regular, if uneasy, houseguests over the years, listening and speculating until finally, piecing together the rumours and the mystery, they find themselves tangled in the web of Henry’s life.

A Dubious Legacy

Corgi

1993 Black Swan trade paperback,reissue,British import. Mary Wesley (An Imaginative Experience: A Novel). Orphaned by the death of her parents in a plane crash, Hebe bridles under the yoke of her strict grandparents. But when she returns from an Italian holiday pregnant-and overhears her family making plans for her abortion-she runs away. At nineteen, making her way alone in the world, all she has are her wits and her unswerving love for her unborn child.

Bantam]

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Jumping the queue

The Camomile Lawn

Harnessing Peacocks

The vacillations of Poppy Carew

Mary Wesley Omnibus: Jumping the Queue / The Camomile Lawn / Harnessing Peacocks

Mary Wesley 3-Book Set

The Camomile Lawn

Not That Sort of Gir

A Dubious Legacy

Harnessing Peacocks