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Mary Wesley, through images and text, looks back over her life in England's wild and mysterious south-west peninsula. The book captures her memories from her early visits to Polzeath in Cornwall in 1914 to the present day living and working in Totnes.
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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 he 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, is published by Black Swan, as are her later novels, 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. With the help of Kim Sayer's evocative photographs Mary Wesley showed us her own personal West Country in her last book, Part of the Scenery. Mary Wesley was awarded the CBE in the 1995 New Year's honour list.
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'Enchanting' Auberon Waugh on Mary Wesley. 'Polished' Sunday Times on Mary Wesley. 'Irrepressible' Marie Claire on Mary Wesley. 'Glorious' Evening Standard on Mary Wesley.
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- PublisherBantam
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0593047176
- ISBN 13 9780593047170
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages192
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This book will follow Mary in words and pictures through her life in the West Country from her early visits to Polzeth in Cornwall in 1914 to the present day living and working in Totnes. Drawing on her own life, and also remembering how her words were inspired by many of the places she visited or made her home, it will be part-memoir, part-nostalgia of the West Country that has meant so much to her over the years. Most of the photography is original and will be beautiful and intriguing in its own right without losing its relevence to Mary or her books. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001253834
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