A vivid and lively picture of wartime London and Cornwall as seen through the eyes of five cousins.
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.
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
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