Not That Sort Of Girl

Nov 28, 2025 10:04 AM

Author:Mary Wesley

When, on the night of their wedding, Ned asks his new wife Rose to promise that she will never leave him, Rose is quick to give her aristocratic husband her word: keeping it, however, proves harder.

For even on the day when she has promised to forsake all others, Rose's heart is with the true love of her life, Mylo, the penniless but passionate Frenchman who, within five minutes of their meeting declared his love and asked her to marry him.

Whilst Rose remains true to her promise never to leave Ned, not even the war, social conventions, nor the prying of her overly inquisitive and cheerfully immoral neighbours, can stop her and Mylo from meeting and loving one another.

Reviews

Mistress of the dark side of upper-class mores

—— Kathryn Hughes , Observer

Spare, well-crafted prose and a mixture of racy gentility, humour and unconventionality

—— Scotsman

What opens as an amusing Edwardian country house tale soon becomes a sinister tragi-comedy of errors, in which the dark underbelly of human nature is revealed in true Shakespearean fashion. Sadie Jones is a most talented and imaginative storyteller, and The Uninvited Guests is a very clever novel.

—— JACQUELINE WINSPEAR, author of Elegy for Eddie

Maupin is a richly gifted comic author

—— Observer

San Francisco is fortunate in having a chronicler as witty and likeable as Armistead Maupin

—— Independent

[Maupin] is the perfect chronicler of the moral, political, sexual and social fluxes of the world as we have lived and known them... Not only is all human life here, but a hell of a lot besides that you'd never imagine

—— City Limits

May well be the funniest series of novels currently in progress

—— The Times

A personal journey through places and people I know

—— Kathleen MacMahon , Irish Times

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