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Helena of the money and richard of the one leg, lost in the war. When the family is reunited for a funeral nearly fifty years later, 1 it brings home to them how much the war acted as a catalyst for their emotional liberation. At an elegant manor house high above the sea, five cousins gather for their annual holiday. See more ideas about chamomile lawn, lawn and garden inspiration. The camomile lawn paperback the summer before the great war, the family, nieces, nephews and assorted others arrive at the grand house of helena and richard. Find a library or download libby an app by overdrive. I loved the camomile lawn, they did it on radio 4 last year as book of the week or book at bedtime. Unlike print books, digital books are subject to vat. 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. Mary wesleys breakthrough, wartime novel the camomile lawn, written when she was in her 70s, captures both the violent passions of youth and the losses of age.
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No single character in her books is mary wesley, though calypso in the camomile lawn perhaps comes closest, but traces of the author can. I first read the camomile lawn at or 14, sneaking it off my mums bookshelf and finding myself both thrilled and shocked by the multitude of affairs and relationships between cousins it contained. After she published her first novel at age seventy, her books sold more than threemillion copies, many of them becoming bestsellers. The camomile lawn ebook by mary wesley rakuten kobo. This is a glorious book you want to consume at one sitting, but wait it out and read it at leisure.
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