Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 02/06/2016
ISBN: 9781784871284
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
Weight: 245g
RRP: £9.99
Escape to the Cornish cliffs in the dizzying heat of August 1939, where five cousins are making the most of the last summer of their youth.
Oliver is just back from the Spanish Civil War and world-weary at only nineteen. Calypso is gorgeous, utterly selfish and determined to marry for money. Polly and Walter, brother and sister, play their cards close to their chests. Then there's little Sophie, who nobody loves. 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.
A beloved bestseller from an author ahead of her time, The Camomile Lawn is a waspishly witty, devil-may-care delight.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 02/06/2016
ISBN: 9781784871284
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
Weight: 245g
RRP: £9.99
Provides equal does of sex and repression in war-torn Britain with panache and pace
A very good book indeed...rich in detail, careful and subtle in observation, mature in judgement
Extraordinarily accomplished and fast-moving
It's hard to overpraise Mary Wesley's novel...so tingling and spry with life that put a mirror to the book and I'll almost swear it will mist over with the breath of the five young cousins