Part of the Furniture

Informationen zum Autor Mary Wesley was born near Windsor in 1912. Her education took her to the London School of Economics and during the War she worked in the War Office. She also worked part-time in the antiques trade. Mary Wesley lived in London, France, Italy, Germany and several places in the West Country. She used to comment that her 'chief claim to fame is arrested development, getting my first novel published at the age of seventy'. That first novel, Jumping the Queue , was followed by a subsequent nine bestsellers: The Camomile Lawn, Second Fiddle, Harnessing Peacocks, The Vacillations of Poppy Carew, Not That Sort of Girl, A Sensible Life, A Dubious Legacy, An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture . Mary Wesley was awarded the CBE in the 1995 New Year's honour list and died in 2002. Klappentext Seventeen-year-old Juno Marlowe has just waved off to war the two young men she has loved for the best part of her life when the air raid sirens begin to wail out across London. She is rescued from this nightmare by a gaunt stranger called Evelyn, frail and older than his years. Zusammenfassung Seventeen-year-old Juno Marlowe has just waved off to war the two young men she has loved for the best part of her life when the air raid sirens begin to wail out across London. She is rescued from this nightmare by a gaunt stranger called Evelyn, frail and older than his years.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Wesley, Wesley Mary
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.01.2008
• EAN: 9780099513056
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951305-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; England, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / War & Military, Historical romance, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, Narrative theme: Coming of age, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), cornwall; jumping the queue; the camomile lawn