Mary Wesley

Praise for Darling Pol

Passionate, erotic, honest, funny and also supremely sad... superbly edited by Wesley's biographer Patrick Marnham

Nicholas Shakespeare, Spectator

a lovely, entertaining and moving book

Sara Wheeler, Literary Review

It seems extraordinary that Mary Wesley had to wait until she was in her seventies to become an acclaimed author. These letters, written to her lover Eric Siepmann, and edited by her biographer Patrick Marnham, show ...

Lynn Barber, Sunday Times

Passionate, erotic, honest, funny and also supremely sad... superbly edited by Wesley's biographer Patrick Marnham

Nicholas Shakespeare, Spectator

a lovely, entertaining and moving book

Sara Wheeler, Literary Review

It seems extraordinary that Mary Wesley had to wait until she was in her seventies to become an acclaimed author. These letters, written to her lover Eric Siepmann, and edited by her biographer Patrick Marnham, show ...

Lynn Barber, Sunday Times

Passionate, erotic, honest, funny and also supremely sad... superbly edited by Wesley's biographer Patrick Marnham

Nicholas Shakespeare, Spectator

a lovely, entertaining and moving book

Sara Wheeler, Literary Review

It seems extraordinary that Mary Wesley had to wait until she was in her seventies to become an acclaimed author. These letters, written to her lover Eric Siepmann, and edited by her biographer Patrick Marnham, show ...

Lynn Barber, Sunday Times

Books by Mary Wesley