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A Sensible Life by Mary Wesley
$27.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
She was a thin, lonely child with huge eyes and an extensive vocabulary of French foul language. Amongst the elegant middle-class British families holidaying in Dinard in 1926 - leading their privileged lives of secure routine pleasures - Flora was a ten-year-old misfit. Ignored by her self-absorbed par ...Show more
An Imaginative Experience by Mary Wesley
$27.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
A traveller on an InterCity train returning to London smells the burn of brakes as it hisses to a stop in the middle of the countryside. He sees a white-faced woman leap from the train and race to the aid of a sheep stranded on its back, unable to rise, in a field. Righting it, she turns, and he sees he ...Show more
Darling Pol - Letters of Mary Wesley and Eric Siepmann 1944-1967 by Mary Wesley; Patrick Marnham (Editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
'They met by chance in the Palm Court of the Ritz Hotel on the evening of 26 October 1944. By the time she eventually caught the train back to Penzance two days later they had fallen in love and Eric had declared that he was determined to marry her...' Mary Wesley told her biographer Patrick Marnham be ...Show more
Harnessing Peacocks by Mary Wesley
$27.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Hebe listens in the darkness of the hall to a family conference. The stern hypocrisy of her grandfather is winning the day. He has summoned her three horsey sisters' successful husbands and they are discussing Hebe's unexpected pregnancy. The decision, unanimous, is that it be terminated. Hebe, dissenti ...Show more
Jumping The Queue by Mary Wesley
$27.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Matilda Poliport, recently widowed, has decided to End It All. But her meticulously planned bid for graceful oblivion is foiled, and when later she foils the suicide attempt of another lost soul - Hugh Warner, on the run from the police - life begins again for both. But life also begins to throw up nast ...Show more
Not That Sort of Girl by Mary Wesley
$27.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
'Rose, don't leave me. Promise never to leave me,' said Ned on their wedding night, revealing an unexpected chink in his perfect armour of wealth, good looks, and country estate.Rose promised.Before the wedding, Mylo had said, 'In bed, with Ned, you will wonder whether this curious act of sex would not, ...Show more
Part of the Furniture by Mary Wesley
$27.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Early in 1941, having just seen off at Euston Station the two young men whom she has loved for the best part of her seventeen years, Juno Marlowe is hurrying down a London street with her ill-fitting shoes in her hands. Aeroplanes thunder overhead; a battery of guns opens up. When a stick of bombs falls ...Show more
Second Fiddle by Mary Wesley
$27.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Beautiful, independent and brazenly manipulative, 40-ish Laura Thornby plays muse to 23-year-old aspiring novelist Claud Bannister in Wesley's mordantly humorous take on upper-middle-class British life.
The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
$27.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in the dizzying heat of August 1939, five cousins have gathered at their aunt's house for their annual ritual of a holiday. For most of them it is the last summer of their youth, with the heady exhilarations a ...Show more
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