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Jan 1, 2001 · 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 ...
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Nov 12, 2013 · The Camomile Lawn: A Novel. International Bestseller: A novel of youthful love and loss and “a powerful evocation of the war years” in England (The Guardian). On a hot August evening in 1939, cousins Oliver, Calypso, Polly, Walter, and Sophy spent one last night together, celebrating the end of summer, at the home of their aunt and uncle.
ISBN. 978-0-333-36892-3. OCLC. 59093668. The Camomile Lawn is a 1984 novel by Mary Wesley beginning with a family holiday in Cornwall in the last summer of peace before the Second World War. When the family is reunited for a funeral nearly fifty years later, it brings home to them how much the war acted as a catalyst for their emotional ...
- Mary Wesley
- 1984
The Camomile Lawn. Mary Wesley. Random House, Mar 31, 2012 - Fiction - 352 pages. 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.
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- Mary Wesley
- Random House, 2012
Apr 21, 2018 · Sat Apr 21 2018 - 06:00. Summer 1939 and cousins Calypso, Polly, Walter, Oliver and Sophy gather in their Uncle Richard’s Cornwall home. They stretch out on the camomile lawn, breathing its ...
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Jan 12, 2012 · Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books. ... The camomile lawn : a novel by Wesley, Mary, 1912-2002 ... City New York Donor ...
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A vivid and lively picture of wartime London and Cornwall as seen through the eyes of five cousins. 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.
