Author:Mary Wesley
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.
Provides equal does of sex and repression in war-torn Britain with panache and pace
—— The TimesA very good book indeed...rich in detail, careful and subtle in observation, mature in judgement
—— Susan HillExtraordinarily accomplished and fast-moving
—— Financial TimesIt'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
—— The TimesSan 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 LimitsMay well be the funniest series of novels currently in progress
—— The TimesA personal journey through places and people I know
—— Kathleen MacMahon , Irish Times
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