A Sensible Life

by Wesley, Mary

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. She published her first novel (Jumping the Queue) at the age of seventy, and went on to write a further nine novels. Mary Wesley died in 2002.

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Black Swan. Good. 275mm / 200mm. Paperback. 1990. 379 pages. Cover worn. Text tanned<br>She was a thin, lonely chil d with huge eyes and an extensive vocabulary of French foul langu age. Amongst the elegant middle-class British families holidaying in Dinard in 1926--leading their privileged lives of secure rout ine pleasures--Flora was a ten-year-old misfit. Ignored by her se… Read more about this item
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London: Bantam Press, 1990. [Modern literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.364 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Blue endpapers. Blue publisher's cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Susan Moxley priced at £12.95 to front flap. Fine, as-new. The story of a young girl forced by neglectful… Read more about this item
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