The Camomile Lawn - Mary Wesley

I would give myself darling if it would do any good but who am I? I love money and a good time I'm enjoying the war I find it exciting and frightening. I enjoy the raids I like all the men taking me out.' 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. For most of them it is the last summer of their youth with the heady exhilarations and freedoms of lost innocence as well as the fears of the coming war. 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 picture of wartime London: the rationing imaginatively circumvented; the fallen houses; the parties the new-found comforts of the desperate humour of survival - all of it evoked with warmth clarity and stunning wit. And through it all the cousins and their friends try to hold on to the part of themselves that laughed and played dangerous games on that camomile lawn.|Behind the large house the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here in August 1939 five cousins have gathered at their aunt's house for their annual ritual of a holiday. For most of them it is the last summer of their youth with the heady exhilarations and freedoms of lost innocence and the fears of the coming war.| |Available||True

TITLE: The Camomile Lawn

AUTHOR: Mary Wesley

SKU: 9781784700522

PUBLISHER: Vintage Publishing

DATE PUBLISHED: 23/04/2015

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 352

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 110 mm x 180 mm x 20 mm

WEIGHT: 186 gr