The Camomile Lawn
by Mary Wesley
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0552991260
- ISBN 13
- 9780552991261
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About This Item
Vintage, Great Britain, 1994. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 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 and freedoms of lost innocence, as well as the fears of the coming war. The Camomile Lawn moves from Cornwall to London and back again, over the years, telling the stories of the cousins, their family and their friends, united by shared losses and lovers, by family ties and the absurd conditions imposed by war as their paths cross and recross over the years. Mary Wesley presents an extraordinarily vivid and lively picture of wartime London: the rationing, imaginatively circumvented; the fallen houses; the parties, the new-found comforts of sex, the desperate humour of survival - all of it evoked with warmth, clarity and stunning wit. And through it all, the cousins and their friends try to hold on to the part of themselves that laughed and played dangerous games on that camomile lawn. 329 pages. Tanning to pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Fiction; ISBN: 0552991260. ISBN/EAN: 9780552991261. Inventory No: 258192.. 9780552991261
Synopsis
Mary Wesley was born 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. It was followed by nine more. Mary Wesley died in 2002.
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- Bookseller
- leura books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 258192
- Title
- The Camomile Lawn
- Author
- Mary Wesley
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0552991260
- ISBN 13
- 9780552991261
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- BZDB43 Fiction; Fiction; Unbranded ISBN: 0552991260 EAN: 9780552991261 Mary Wesley The Camomile Lawn
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- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.