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

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.

Second fiddle

Mary Wesley 3-Book Set

Black Swan.

<p>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.</p>

Bantam]

<p>Early in 1941, Juno Marlowe is hurrying down a London street as the bombs start to fall. She is rescued by a stranger who offers her the protection of his house. This marks the beginning of a series of encounters that take her to the West Country, where she may no longer be part of the furniture.</p>

Part of the Furniture

Sensible Life (Windsor Selections)

Chivers P.

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The Camomile Lawn

Harnessing Peacocks

Second fiddle

Mary Wesley 3-Book Set

Harnessing Peacocks

Part of the Furniture

Sensible Life (Windsor Selections)