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The Camomile Lawn

Author : Mary Wesley
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 144644337X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book The Camomile Lawn written by Mary Wesley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape to the Cornish cliffs in the dizzying heat of August 1939, where five cousins are making the most of the last summer of their youth. Oliver is just back from the Spanish Civil War and world-weary at only nineteen. Calypso is gorgeous, utterly selfish and determined to marry for money. Polly and Walter, brother and sister, play their cards close to their chests. Then there's little Sophie, who nobody loves. Soon the world will be swept into war again and the five cousins will enter a whirligig of sex, infidelity, love and loss, but for now they have one last, gaspingly hot summer at the house by the cliffs with the camomile lawn. A beloved bestseller from an author ahead of her time, The Camomile Lawn is a waspishly witty, devil-may-care delight.

Jumping the Queue

Author : Mary Wesley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480450561
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Jumping the Queue written by Mary Wesley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “quirky, sad, and very funny” novel about suicide, matricide, and an unlikely love, from one of England’s best-loved authors (The Guardian). Determined to end it all after the death of her husband, Matilda Poliport’s carefully laid plans to kill herself are derailed when she comes to the rescue of another potential bridge jumper—a notorious young man on the run for having murdered his mother. Faced with the choice of either turning him in to the police or continuing on with her suicide attempt, Matilda makes the obvious decision and takes Hugh Warner home to stay with her while they both sort out what to do next. As Hugh and Matilda find surprising comfort in each other, secrets about Matilda’s deceased husband are revealed, leaving Matilda to face some very uncomfortable facts about her life. And as the pair plot to help Hugh escape the law, they will both need to face the truth about themselves and how far they are willing to go for each other. This “virtuoso performance of guileful plotting, deft characterizations, and malicious wit” showcases the talents of Mary Wesley at her caustic and comical best (The Times, London).

Part of the Furniture

Author : Mary Wesley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480450634
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Part of the Furniture written by Mary Wesley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A smart, sharply written novel from a talent whose “fresh and original” works made her one of England’s most beloved authors (The New York Times). Abandoned by her mother and betrayed by the men she thought she loved, Juno Marlowe is alone. So alone that when the air raid sirens ring out, she has nowhere to hide until a kind but frail man offers to take her in for the night. Her sad story inspires him to write her a letter of introduction to his family—a caring gesture that will turn out to mean more than she could have imagined. With nowhere to call home, she seeks out the man’s father, Robert Copplestone, who lives on a quiet Cornwall estate where Juno is able to earn her keep by helping him tend to his animals. And she soon finds that the strong, handsome widower is more of a friend than she’s ever had and more like family than anyone she’s ever known. But when Juno’s fractured past catches up with her, the fragile and unlikely bond Robert and Juno have formed may be in danger of breaking under the strain. This “heartwarming story of May-December love” is a gentle look at the folly of humanity, weaving a tale of friendship, love, and healing (Publishers Weekly). “An elegant, satisfying entertainment.” —Kirkus Reviews

Harnessing Peacocks

Author : Mary Wesley
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446443418
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Harnessing Peacocks written by Mary Wesley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hebe sits in the darkness and listens to her hypocritical grandparents and her older siblings discuss how her unexpected pregnancy must be terminated to avoid the shame it will bring. Determined to raise her child, she flees into the night with only her mother's jewellery to support her. Twelve years later she is living happily alone in Cornwall, whilst her son attends an expensive private school. Hebe has harnessed her two great talents - cooking and making love - to make a living for herself, but when the separate strands of her life become intangled the even tenor of her days is threatened, and her world changes forever.

A Sensible Life

Author : Mary Wesley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480449946
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book A Sensible Life written by Mary Wesley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “engaging and memorable novel,” set in post-WWI England and France, takes a wise, witty look at love, growing up, and class differences (Publishers Weekly). For the British families who vacation there, the shore town of Dinard, France, is a getaway from the ills of modern life. But when Flora Trevelyan visits with her self-absorbed parents in 1926, it’s not an escape she finds—instead, it’s a doorway into a different world, a different life, that she never knew existed. As the years pass, Flora embarks on a journey of discovery, from falling for three very different young men to understanding the follies of an upper class society of which she will never quite be a part to uncovering the difference between true friends and fair-weather companions. Along the way, her own life and those of her new acquaintances will be upended, and as the shadows of World War II fall over Europe, Flora will have to decide what kind of person she wants to be—and whether being sensible makes sense. Praised by the Daily Telegraph as “delicious,” Mary Wesley’s sharply humorous coming-of-age story weaves a tale of an unloved, neglected child who turns into a fiercely independent woman, both an entertaining romp and an astute glimpse into British society between the two World Wars.

The Doloriad

Author : Missouri Williams
Publisher : MCD x FSG Originals
ISBN 13 : 0374605092
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book The Doloriad written by Missouri Williams and published by MCD x FSG Originals. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The Doloriad] just might be what your rotten little heart deserves." —J. Robert Lennon, The New York Times Book Review Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by i-D, Cosmopolitan, Thrillist, Lit Reactor, and Lit Hub, and one of Nylon's March 2022 Books to Add to Your Reading List Macabre, provocative, depraved, and unforgettable, The Doloriad marks the debut of Missouri Williams, a terrifyingly original new voice In the wake of a mysterious environmental cataclysm that has wiped out the rest of humankind, the Matriarch, her brother, and the family descended from their incest cling to existence on the edges of a deserted city. The Matriarch, ruling with fear and force, dreams of starting humanity over again, though her children are not so certain. Together the family scavenges supplies and attempts to cultivate the poisoned earth. For entertainment, they watch old VHS tapes of a TV show in which a problem-solving medieval saint faces down a sequence of logical and ethical dilemmas. But one day the Matriarch dreams of another group of survivors and sends away one of her daughters, the legless Dolores, as a marriage offering. When Dolores returns the next day, her reappearance triggers the breakdown of the Matriarch’s fragile order, and the control she wields over their sprawling family begins to weaken. Told in extraordinary, intricate prose that moves with a life of its own, and at times striking with the power of physical force, Missouri Williams’s debut novel is a blazingly original document of depravity and salvation. Gothic and strange, moving and disquieting, and often hilarious, The Doloriad stares down, with narrowed eyes, humanity’s unbreakable commitment to life.

An Imaginative Experience

Author : Mary Wesley
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446443396
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book An Imaginative Experience written by Mary Wesley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A train screeches to a halt in the middle of the English countryside and, observed by her fascinated fellow travellers, a woman climbs down and rushes to the aid of a sheep, stranded on its back and unable to rise. Sylvester Weekes watches with interest and noticing, as she turns, that her face is full of tragedy, the woman's lonely image lodges in his mind. But he is not the only one to speculate over her actions - Maurice Benson, former private detective turned full-time birdwatcher, is convinced that the mysterious woman must be tracked down, in whatever way possible. This is a story rich in character and wit, and powerfully moving in its exploration of the heart's pain and deliverance. It is a tale of loss, of release, of an acceptance of the cruelties of fate and of the imaginative experience of love.

Wild Mary: The Life Of Mary Wesley

Author : Patrick Marnham
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448181291
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Wild Mary: The Life Of Mary Wesley written by Patrick Marnham and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Wesley published her first novel at seventy and went on to write a further nine bestsellers, including the legendary The Camomile Lawn, in a style best described as arsenic without the old lace. Many of her stories were inspired by her experiences during the Blitz, and by her marriages: the first to an aristocrat, a brief and conventional affair, and the second to a penniless writer she adored. A remarkable book about a remarkable woman, Patrick Marnham's brilliantly researched and wonderfully impartial book disentangles truth from rumour, highlighting the links between Wesley's real life and her fiction.

Not that Sort of Girl

Author : Mary Wesley
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099499126
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Not that Sort of Girl written by Mary Wesley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the whole of Rose's respectable married life she had kept faith with two men. To Ned she was a perfect wife, mother of his son and elegant hostess. To Mylo, she was an impetuous and unconventional mistress, answering his calls through 50 years of duplicity. When Ned dies, Rose chooses her new future.

The Camomile Lawn

Author : Mary Wesley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 148045057X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Camomile Lawn written by Mary Wesley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Bestseller: A novel of youthful love and loss and “a powerful evocation of the war years” in England (The Guardian). On a hot August evening in 1939, cousins Oliver, Calypso, Polly, Walter, and Sophy spent one last night together, celebrating the end of summer, at the home of their aunt and uncle. Now, forty years later, as the motley cast of characters drive to the funeral of one of their own, they recall how important that night truly was—and all that came after. From Oliver, whose desperation to prove himself in war ended up as his downfall, to Calypso, whose flirtations landed her in an unlikely marriage with even less likely results, to Sophy, whose secrets from that night haunted her for the rest of her life, each of them recalls the twisted paths of love and betrayal they walked as the country came apart around them under the coming shadow of World War II. Mary Wesley masterfully interweaves tragedy and humor in this “extraordinarily accomplished and fast-moving” novel, presenting a tale of both the world at large and the dalliances, allegiances, and losses of her expertly crafted characters (Financial Times).

Second Fiddle

Author : Mary Wesley
Publisher : MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Second Fiddle written by Mary Wesley and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 1988 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

I Capture the Castle

Author : Dodie Smith
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466842121
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book I Capture the Castle written by Dodie Smith and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the 20th Century's most beloved novels is still winning hearts! I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries. Her journals candidly chronicle the great changes that take place within the castle's walls, and her own first descent into love. By the time she pens her final entry, she has "captured the castle"-- and the heart of the reader-- in one of literature's most enchanting entertainments. “This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met.” -- J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series

The Blue Book

Author : A. L. Kennedy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544027701
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Blue Book written by A. L. Kennedy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the U.K.'s most dazzling authors comes a brutal and funny novel about a pair of fraudulent psychic mediums that is itself an elaborate con game between fact and fiction, life and death--a book as verbally acrobatic as it is emotionally intense.

Part of the Scenery

Author : Mary Wesley
Publisher : Bantam Books
ISBN 13 : 9780593047170
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Part of the Scenery written by Mary Wesley and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will follow Mary in words and pictures through her life in the West Country from her early visits to Polzeth in Cornwall in 1914 to the present day living and working in Totnes. Drawing on her own life, and also remembering how her words were inspired by many of the places she visited or made her home, it will be part-memoir, part-nostalgia of the West Country that has meant so much to her over the years. Most of the photography is original and will be beautiful and intriguing in its own right without losing its relevence to Mary or her books.

Haphazard House

Author : Mary Wesley
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780582081086
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Haphazard House written by Mary Wesley and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When eleven-year-old Lisa Fuller and her younger brother Josh buy a house in the country with their winnings from a horse race, their whole family encounters strange and wonderful chaos in their new home.

The Garden Floor

Author : Nigel Colborn
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Garden Floor written by Nigel Colborn and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most gardens have an open space at their heart--a focal "floor" amidst the beds, borders, & shrubbery that surround it. Now, this new collection of ideas & projects shows readers how to transform that space into the showpiece of their garden.

Castle of Dreams

Author : Elise McCune
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1952533880
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Castle of Dreams written by Elise McCune and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up together in a mysterious castle in northern Queensland, Rose and Vivien Blake are very close sisters. But during the Second World War their relationship becomes strained when they each fall in love with the same dashing but enigmatic American soldier. Rose's daughter, Linda, has long sensed a secret in her mother's past, but Rose has always resisted Linda's questions, preferring to focus on the present. Years later Rose's granddaughter, Stella, also becomes fascinated by the shroud of secrecy surrounding her grandmother's life. Intent on unravelling the truth, she visits the now-ruined castle where Rose and Vivien grew up to see if she can find out more. Captivating and compelling, Castle of Dreams is about love, secrets, lies - and the perils of delving into the past...